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Replication of the association between variants in WFS1 and risk of type 2 diabetes in European populations.
Diabetologia - 1 Mar 2008
Franks P W, Rolandsson O, Debenham S L, Fawcett K A, Payne F, Dina C, Froguel P, Mohlke K L, Willer C, Olsson T, Wareham N J, Hallmans G, Barroso I, Sandhu M S
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Mutations at the gene encoding wolframin (WFS1) cause Wolfram syndrome, a rare neurological condition. Associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at WFS1 and type 2 diabetes have recently been reported. Thus, our aim was to replicate those associations in a northern Swedish case-control study of type 2 diabetes. We also performed a meta-analysis of published and previously...
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