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Genetic prediction of future type 2 diabetes.
PLoS medicine - 1 Nov 2005
Lyssenko Valeriya, Almgren Peter, Anevski Dragi, Orho-Melander Marju, Sjögren Marketa, Saloranta Carola, Tuomi Tiinamaija, Groop Leif
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial disease in which environmental triggers interact with genetic variants in the predisposition to the disease. A number of common variants have been associated with T2D but our knowledge of their ability to predict T2D prospectively is limited. METHODS AND FINDINGS: By using a Cox proportional hazard model, common variants in the PPARG (P12A), CAPN10 (SNP43 and...
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