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Association of recently identified type 2 diabetes gene variants with Gestational Diabetes in Asian Indian population.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jun 2017
Kanthimathi Sekar, Chidambaram Manickam, Bodhini Dhanasekaran, Liju Samuel, Bhavatharini Aruyerchelvan, Uma Ram, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, Mohan Viswanathan, Radha Venkatesan
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Earlier studies have provided evidence that the gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) share common genetic background. A recent genome wide association study (GWAS) showed a strong association of six novel gene variants with T2DM among south Asians but not with Europeans. The aim of this study was to investigate whether these variants that confer susceptibility to T2DM in Asian...
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