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A replication study of 49 Type 2 diabetes risk variants in a Punjabi Pakistani population.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Aug 2016
Zia A, Wang X, Bhatti A, Demirci F Y, Zhao W, Rasheed A, Samuel M, Kiani A K, Ismail M, Zafar J, John P, Saleheen D, Kamboh M I
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AIM: The burden of Type 2 diabetes is alarmingly high in South Asia, a region that has many genetically diverse ethnic populations. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted largely in European populations have identified a number of loci predisposing to Type 2 diabetes risk, however, the relevance of such genetic loci in many South Asian sub-ethnicities remains elusive. The aim of this study was to...
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