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Lack of replication of common EXT2 gene variants with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in Lebanese Arabs.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Dec 2013
Nemr R, Al-Busaidi A S, Sater M S, Echtay A, Saldanha F L, Racoubian E, Keleshian S H, Almawi W Y
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Recent genome-wide association studies and replication analyses have reported the association of variants of the exostosin-2 (EXT2) gene and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in some populations, but not in others. This study investigated the associations of EXT2 variants rs1113132, rs3740878 and rs11037909 with T2DM in a Lebanese Arab population. METHODS: This case-control study involved 995...
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