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Association of common polymorphisms with gestational diabetes mellitus in Japanese women: A case-control study.
Endocrine journal - 29 Apr 2017
Kasuga Yoshifumi, Hata Kenichiro, Tajima Atsushi, Ochiai Daigo, Saisho Yoshifumi, Matsumoto Tadashi, Arata Naoko, Miyakoshi Kei, Tanaka Mamoru
Abstract excerpt
Gestational diabetes (GDM) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) share part of pathomechanism and several T2DM susceptibility genes are demonstrated to be associated with GDM. No information on the genetics of GDM, however, was available in Japanese women. In this study, T2DM risk variants (45 single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs] from 36 genes) identified in previous studies were genotyped using matrix-assisted laser...
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