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Susceptibility background for type 2 diabetes in eleven Mexican Indigenous populations: HNF4A gene analysis.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Dec 2017
Granados-Silvestre M A, Ortiz-López M G, Granados J, Canizales-Quinteros S, Peñaloza-Espinosa Rosenda I, Lechuga C, Acuña-Alonzo V, Sánchez-Pozos K, Menjivar M
Abstract excerpt
The genetic risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) increases in parallel with the proportion of Native American ancestry. Mestizo Mexicans have a 70% Native Amerindian genetic background. The T130I polymorphism in the HNF4A gene has been associated with early-onset T2D in mestizo Mexicans. Thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the frequency and relationship of the T130I variant in the HNF4A gene...
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