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Impact of polymorphisms in WFS1 on prediabetic phenotypes in a population-based sample of middle-aged people with normal and abnormal glucose regulation.
Diabetologia - 1 Sept 2008
Sparsø T, Andersen G, Albrechtsen A, Jørgensen T, Borch-Johnsen K, Sandbaek A, Lauritzen T, Wasson J, Permutt M A, Glaser B, Madsbad S, Pedersen O, Hansen T
Abstract excerpt
AIM/HYPOTHESIS: Recently, variants in WFS1 have been shown to be associated with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to examine metabolic risk phenotypes of WFS1 variants in glucose-tolerant people and in individuals with abnormal glucose regulation. METHODS: The type 2 diabetes-associated WFS1 variant rs734312 (His611Arg) was studied in the population-based Inter99 cohort involving 4,568 glucose-tolerant individuals and...
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