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Heritability, parental transmission and environment correlation of pediatric-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome-related traits.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 Apr 2017
Miranda-Lora América L, Vilchis-Gil Jenny, Molina-Díaz Mario, Flores-Huerta Samuel, Klünder-Klünder Miguel
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AIM: To estimate the heritability, parental transmission and environmental contributions to the phenotypic variation in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome-related traits in families of Mexican children and adolescents. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study of 184 tri-generational pedigrees with a total of 1160 individuals (99 families with a type 2 diabetes mellitus proband before age 19)....
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