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Testing of diabetes-associated WFS1 polymorphisms in the Diabetes Prevention Program.
Diabetologia - 1 Mar 2008
Florez J C, Jablonski K A, McAteer J, Sandhu M S, Wareham N J, Barroso I, Franks P W, Altshuler D, Knowler W C
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Wolfram syndrome (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness) is caused by mutations in the WFS1 gene. Recently, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in WFS1 have been reproducibly associated with type 2 diabetes. We therefore examined the effects of these variants on diabetes incidence and response to interventions in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), in which a...
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