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A genome-wide association scan for acute insulin response to glucose in Hispanic-Americans: the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Family Study (IRAS FS).
Diabetologia - 1 Jul 2009
Rich S S, Goodarzi M O, Palmer N D, Langefeld C D, Ziegler J, Haffner S M, Bryer-Ash M, Norris J M, Taylor K D, Haritunians T, Rotter J I, Chen Y-D I, Wagenknecht L E, Bowden D W, Bergman R N
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: This study sought to identify genes and regions in the human genome that are associated with the acute insulin response to glucose (AIRg), an important predictor of type 2 diabetes, in Hispanic-American participants from the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Family Study (IRAS FS). METHODS: A two-stage genome-wide association scan (GWAS) was performed in IRAS FS Hispanic-American samples. In the...
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