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Pleiotropic effects of TCF7L2 gene variants and its modulation in the metabolic syndrome: from the LIPGENE study.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Jan 2011
Delgado-Lista J, Perez-Martinez P, García-Rios A, Phillips C M, Williams C M, Gulseth H L, Helal O, Blaak E E, Kiec-Wilk B, Basu S, Drevon C A, Defoort C, Saris W H, Wybranska I, Riserus U, Lovegrove J A, Roche H M, Lopez-Miranda J
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Variants of the TCF7L2 gene predict the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We investigated the associations between gene variants of TCF7L2 and clinical features of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) (an entity often preceding T2DM), and their interaction with non-genetic...
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