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Family-based association analysis confirms the role of the chromosome 9q21.32 locus in the susceptibility of diabetic nephropathy.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Pezzolesi Marcus G, Jeong Jackson, Smiles Adam M, Skupien Jan, Mychaleckyj Josyf C, Rich Stephen S, Warram James H, Krolewski Andrzej S
Abstract excerpt
A genome-wide association scan of type 1 diabetic patients from the GoKinD collections previously identified four novel diabetic nephropathy susceptibility loci that have subsequently been shown to be associated with diabetic nephropathy in unrelated patients with type 2 diabetes. To expand these findings, we examined whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at these susceptibility loci were associated with...
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