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A strategy to search for common obesity and type 2 diabetes genes.
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM - 1 Jan 2000
Elbers Clara C, Onland-Moret N Charlotte, Franke Lude, Niehoff Anne G, van der Schouw Yvonne T, Wijmenga Cisca
Abstract excerpt
Worldwide, the incidence of type 2 diabetes is rising rapidly, mainly because of the increase in the incidence of obesity, which is an important risk factor for this condition. Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are complex genetic traits but they also share some nongenetic risk factors. Hence, it is tempting to speculate that the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and obesity might also partly be due to shared...
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