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Linkage of type 2 diabetes on chromosome 9p24 in Mexican Americans: additional evidence from the Veterans Administration Genetic Epidemiology Study (VAGES).
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2013
Farook Vidya S, Coletta Dawn K, Puppala Sobha, Schneider Jennifer, Chittoor Geetha, Hu Shirley L, Winnier Deidre A, Norton Luke, Dyer Thomas D, Arya Rector, Cole Shelley A, Carless Melanie, Göring Harald H, Almasy Laura, Mahaney Michael C, Comuzzie Anthony G, Curran Joanne E, Blangero John, Duggirala Ravindranath, Lehman Donna M, Jenkinson Christopher P, Defronzo Ralph A
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OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a complex metabolic disease and is more prevalent in certain ethnic groups such as the Mexican Americans. The goal of our study was to perform a genome-wide linkage (GWL) analysis to localize T2DM susceptibility loci in Mexican Americans. METHODS: We used the phenotypic and genotypic data from 1,122 Mexican-American individuals (307 families) who participated in the Veterans...
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