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The association between KCNQ1 gene polymorphism and type 2 diabetes risk: a meta-analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Sun Qiman, Song Kang, Shen Xizhong, Cai Yu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: KCNQ1 (potassium voltage-gated channel KQT-like sub-family, member 1) encodes a pore-forming subunit of a voltage-gated K(+) channel (KvLQT1) that plays a key role for the repolarization of the cardiac action potential as well as water and salt transport in epithelial tissues. Recently, genome-wide association studies have identified KCNQ1 as a type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility gene in populations...
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