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Maternal VDR variants rather than 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration during early pregnancy are associated with type 1 diabetes in the offspring.
Diabetologia - 1 Oct 2015
Miettinen Maija E, Smart Melissa C, Kinnunen Leena, Mathews Christopher, Harjutsalo Valma, Surcel Heljä-Marja, Lamberg-Allardt Christel, Tuomilehto Jaakko, Hitman Graham A
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration in the metabolic pathway of vitamin D show different genotype distributions between Finnish families with an offspring with type 1 diabetes (cases) and families with a healthy offspring (controls). METHODS: A total of 31 SNPs in eight genes were studied in case and control mothers and...
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