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Individual and cumulative effect of type 2 diabetes genetic susceptibility variants on risk of coronary heart disease.
Diabetologia - 1 Sept 2011
Pfister R, Barnes D, Luben R N, Khaw K-T, Wareham N J, Langenberg C
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for CHD. We hypothesised that diabetes genetic susceptibility variants might be associated with increased CHD risk. METHODS: We examined the individual and cumulative effect of 38 common genetic variants previously reported to be associated with type 2 diabetes on risk of incident CHD in 20,467 participants of the European Prospective Investigation into...
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