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Replication of 13 genome-wide association (GWA)-validated risk variants for type 2 diabetes in Pakistani populations.
Diabetologia - 1 Jun 2011
Rees S D, Hydrie M Z I, Shera A S, Kumar S, O'Hare J P, Barnett A H, Basit A, Kelly M A
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies and subsequent replication studies have greatly increased the number of validated type 2 diabetes susceptibility variants, but most of these have been conducted in European populations. Despite the high prevalence of the disease in South Asians, studies investigating GWA-validated type 2 diabetes risk variants in this ethnic group are limited. We...
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