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The search for putative unifying genetic factors for components of the metabolic syndrome.
Diabetologia - 1 Dec 2008
Sjögren M, Lyssenko V, Jonsson A, Berglund G, Nilsson P, Groop L, Orho-Melander M
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors contributing to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes but unifying mechanisms have not been identified. Our aim was to study whether common variations in 17 genes previously associated with type 2 diabetes or components of the metabolic syndrome and variants in nine genes with inconsistent association with at least two...
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