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Association of the KCNJ11 variant E23K with type 2 diabetes in Indo-Trinidadians.
The West Indian medical journal - 1 Dec 2011
Boodram L G, Miyake K, Hayes M G, Bell G I, Cockburn B N
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of genetic variation in KCNJ11 on the risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Trinidadians. METHODS: The coding and bordering intron-exon regions of the KCNJ11 gene were sequenced in 168 diabetic and 61 non-diabetic subjects who historically were thought to be of South Asian Indian ancestry as well as 66 diabetic and 59 non-diabetic subjects of African ancestry. Allele and haplotype...
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