Genetics of type 2 diabetes: pathophysiologic and clinical relevance.

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BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies enlarged our knowledge about the genetic background of type 2 diabetes. AIMS: This review provides an overview of the role of these novel genetic findings for the pathophysiology, prediction and treatment of type 2 diabetes. RESULTS: The genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes appears to be determined by many common variants in multiple gene loci with low...

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