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Admixture mapping and subsequent fine-mapping suggests a biologically relevant and novel association on chromosome 11 for type 2 diabetes in African Americans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Jeff Janina M, Armstrong Loren L, Ritchie Marylyn D, Denny Joshua C, Kho Abel N, Basford Melissa A, Wolf Wendy A, Pacheco Jennifer A, Li Rongling, Chisholm Rex L, Roden Dan M, Hayes M Geoffrey, Crawford Dana C
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex metabolic disease that disproportionately affects African Americans. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several loci that contribute to T2D in European Americans, but few studies have been performed in admixed populations. We first performed a GWAS of 1,563 African Americans from the Vanderbilt Genome-Electronic Records Project and Northwestern University...
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