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Genome-wide association scans for Type 2 diabetes: new insights into biology and therapy.
Trends in pharmacological sciences - 1 Dec 2007
McCarthy Mark I, Zeggini Eleftheria
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Type 2 diabetes is a complex, multifactorial disease, for which genetic and environmental factors jointly determine susceptibility. Disentangling the genetic aetiology of Type 2 diabetes has proven a challenging task, rewarded, until recently, with only limited success. However, the field of Type 2 diabetes genetics has been transformed over the past few months, with the publication of six genome-wide association...
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