Article
Investigation of type 2 diabetes risk alleles support CDKN2A/B, CDKAL1, and TCF7L2 as susceptibility genes in a Han Chinese cohort.
PloS one - 10 Feb 2010
Wen Jie, Rönn Tina, Olsson Anders, Yang Zhen, Lu Bin, Du Yieping, Groop Leif, Ling Charlotte, Hu Renming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reported several genetic variants to be reproducibly associated with type 2 diabetes. Additional variants have also been detected from a metaanalysis of three GWASs, performed in populations of European ancestry. In the present study, we evaluated the influence of 17 genetic variants from 15 candidate loci, identified in type 2 diabetes GWASs and the...
Topics
Join the communities discussing this publication.
