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Genetics of type 2 diabetes in East Asian populations.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Dec 2012
Cho Yoon Shin, Lee Jong-Young, Park Kyong Soo, Nho Chu Won
Abstract excerpt
Because type 2 diabetes (T2D) is highly familial, there has been a concentrated effort to uncover the genetic basis of T2D worldwide over the last decade. In East Asians, T2D is experiencing a rapidly rising prevalence that is characterized by a relatively lower body mass index, as compared with that in Europeans. To date, at least 15 convincing T2D loci have been identified from large-scale genome-wide...
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