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Association of six single nucleotide polymorphisms with gestational diabetes mellitus in a Chinese population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Wang Ying, Nie Min, Li Wei, Ping Fan, Hu Yingying, Ma Liangkun, Gao Jinsong, Liu Juntao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To investigate whether the candidate genes that confer susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus are also correlated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in pregnant Chinese women. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In this study, 1764 unrelated pregnant women were recruited, of which 725 women had GDM and 1039 served as controls. Six single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs7754840 in CDKAL1, rs391300 in...
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