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Genome-wide association studies in type 2 diabetes.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Apr 2009
McCarthy Mark I, Zeggini Eleftheria
Abstract excerpt
Despite numerous candidate gene and linkage studies, the field of type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetics had until recently succeeded in identifying few genuine disease-susceptibility loci. The advent of genome-wide association (GWA) scans has transformed the situation, leading to an expansion in the number of established, robustly replicating T2D loci to almost 20. These novel findings offer unique insights into the...
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