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A genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus in Korean women.
Diabetes - 1 Feb 2012
Kwak Soo Heon, Kim Sung-Hoon, Cho Young Min, Go Min Jin, Cho Yoon Shin, Choi Sung Hee, Moon Min Kyong, Jung Hye Seung, Shin Hyoung Doo, Kang Hyun Min, Cho Nam H, Lee In Kyu, Kim Seong Yeon, Han Bok-Ghee, Jang Hak C, Park Kyong Soo
Abstract excerpt
Knowledge regarding the genetic risk loci for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is still limited. In this study, we performed a two-stage genome-wide association analysis in Korean women. In the stage 1 genome scan, 468 women with GDM and 1,242 nondiabetic control women were compared using 2.19 million genotyped or imputed markers. We selected 11 loci for further genotyping in stage 2 samples of 931 case and...
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