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Association of TCF7L2 SNPs with age at onset of type 2 diabetes and proinsulin/insulin ratio but not with glucagon-like peptide 1.
Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews - 1 Jul 2011
Silbernagel Guenther, Renner Wilfried, Grammer Tanja B, Hügl Sigrun R, Bertram Julia, Kleber Marcus E, Hoffmann Michael M, Winkelmann Bernhard R, März Winfried, Boehm Bernhard O
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Variants in TCF7L2 have been associated with the age at onset of type 2 diabetes in Mexican Americans. However, there is a lack of data on this relationship in Caucasians. Furthermore, risk alleles in TCF7L2 have been suggested to account for decreased conversion of proinsulin to insulin and decreased expression of GLP-1. We investigated the effect of the allelic variants rs1225537 and rs7903146 in...
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