Article
Contribution of common variants of ENPP1, IGF2BP2, KCNJ11, MLXIPL, PPARγ, SLC30A8 and TCF7L2 to the risk of type 2 diabetes in Lebanese and Tunisian Arabs.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Nov 2012
Mtiraoui N, Turki A, Nemr R, Echtay A, Izzidi I, Al-Zaben G S, Irani-Hakime N, Keleshian S H, Mahjoub T, Almawi W Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: While several type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) susceptibility loci identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been replicated in many populations, their association in Arabs has not been reported. For this reason, the present study looked at the contribution of ENNP1 (rs1044498), IGF2BP2 (rs1470579), KCNJ11 (rs5219), MLXIPL (rs7800944), PPARγ (rs1801282), SLC30A8 () and...