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Replication Study in a Japanese Population of Six Susceptibility Loci for Type 2 Diabetes Originally Identified by a Transethnic Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Matsuba Ren, Imamura Minako, Tanaka Yasushi, Iwata Minoru, Hirose Hiroshi, Kaku Kohei, Maegawa Hiroshi, Watada Hirotaka, Tobe Kazuyuki, Kashiwagi Atsunori, Kawamori Ryuzo, Maeda Shiro
Abstract excerpt
AIM: We performed a replication study in a Japanese population to evaluate the association between type 2 diabetes and six susceptibility loci (TMEM154, SSR1, FAF1, POU5F1, ARL15, and MPHOSPH9) originally identified by a transethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 2014. METHODS: We genotyped 7,620 Japanese participants (5,817 type 2 diabetes patients and 1,803 controls) for each of the...
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