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Combining information from common type 2 diabetes risk polymorphisms improves disease prediction.
PLoS medicine - 1 Oct 2006
Weedon Michael N, McCarthy Mark I, Hitman Graham, Walker Mark, Groves Christopher J, Zeggini Eleftheria, Rayner N William, Shields Beverley, Owen Katharine R, Hattersley Andrew T, Frayling Timothy M
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BACKGROUND: A limited number of studies have assessed the risk of common diseases when combining information from several predisposing polymorphisms. In most cases, individual polymorphisms only moderately increase risk (approximately 20%), and they are thought to be unhelpful in assessing indivi...
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