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Utility of large consanguineous family-based model for investigating the genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Gene - 10 Sept 2014
Al-Sinani Sawsan, Hassan Mohammed Othman, Zadjali Fahad, Al-Yahyaee Said, Albarwani Sulayma, Rizvi Syed, Jaju Deepali, Comuzzie Anthony, Voruganti Venkata Saroja, Bayoumi Riad
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OBJECTIVES: This study examined the utility of a family-based model for replicating the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D). METHODS AND RESULTS: In a total of 232 members of a large consanguineous Omani Arab pedigree (age: 16-80years), there were 27 diabetics and 50 prediabetics (17 with impaired fasting glucose and 33 with impaired glucose tolerance). All 232 individuals...
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