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Association of CDKAL1, IGF2BP2, CDKN2A/B, HHEX, SLC30A8, and KCNJ11 with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in a Japanese population.
Diabetes - 1 Mar 2008
Omori Shintaro, Tanaka Yasushi, Takahashi Atsushi, Hirose Hiroshi, Kashiwagi Atsunori, Kaku Kohei, Kawamori Ryuzo, Nakamura Yusuke, Maeda Shiro
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Recently, several genes have been shown to be associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes by genome-wide association studies in white populations. To further investigate the involvement of these polymorphisms in conferring susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, we examined the association of 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within 11 candidate loci with type 2 diabetes in a Japanese...
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