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Novel meta-analysis-derived type 2 diabetes risk loci do not determine prediabetic phenotypes.
PloS one - 20 Aug 2008
Staiger Harald, Machicao Fausto, Kantartzis Konstantinos, Schäfer Silke A, Kirchhoff Kerstin, Guthoff Martina, Silbernagel Günther, Stefan Norbert, Fritsche Andreas, Häring Hans-Ulrich
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association (GWA) studies identified a series of novel type 2 diabetes risk loci. Most of them were subsequently demonstrated to affect insulin secretion of pancreatic beta-cells. Very recently, a meta-analysis of GWA data revealed nine additional risk loci with still undefined roles in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Using our thoroughly phenotyped cohort of subjects at an increased...
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