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Genomics of type 2 diabetes mellitus: implications for the clinician.
Nature reviews. Endocrinology - 1 Aug 2009
Stolerman Elliot S, Florez Jose C
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has changed, in part owing to implementation of genome-wide association studies as a method for unraveling the genetic architecture of complex traits. These studies enable a global search throughout the nuclear genome for variants that are associated with specific phenotypes. Currently, single nucleotide polymorphisms in about 24 different...
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