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Sixty-five common genetic variants and prediction of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 May 2015
Talmud Philippa J, Cooper Jackie A, Morris Richard W, Dudbridge Frank, Shah Tina, Engmann Jorgen, Dale Caroline, White Jon, McLachlan Stela, Zabaneh Delilah, Wong Andrew, Ong Ken K, Gaunt Tom, Holmes Michael V, Lawlor Debbie A, Richards Marcus, Hardy Rebecca, Kuh Diana, Wareham Nicholas, Langenberg Claudia, Ben-Shlomo Yoav, Wannamethee S Goya, Strachan Mark W J, Kumari Meena, Whittaker John C, Drenos Fotios, Kivimaki Mika, Hingorani Aroon D, Price Jacqueline F, Humphries Steve E
Abstract excerpt
We developed a 65 type 2 diabetes (T2D) variant-weighted gene score to examine the impact on T2D risk assessment in a U.K.-based consortium of prospective studies, with subjects initially free from T2D (N = 13,294; 37.3% women; mean age 58.5 [38-99] years). We compared the performance of the gene...
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