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Evaluation of DOK5 as a susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes and obesity in North Indian population.
BMC medical genetics - 27 Feb 2010
Tabassum Rubina, Mahajan Anubha, Chauhan Ganesh, Dwivedi Om Prakash, Ghosh Saurabh, Tandon Nikhil, Bharadwaj Dwaipayan
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BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder with obesity being a major contributing factor in its development. Susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes and obesity have been localized on different chromosomal regions by various genome-wide linkage scans. Of these chromosomal regions, 20q13 is one of the strongest linked regions for type 2 diabetes as well as obesity. On 20q13 lies DOK5 that seems...
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