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Linking Metabolic Disease With the PGC-1α Gly482Ser Polymorphism.
Endocrinology - 1 Feb 2018
Vandenbeek Roxanne, Khan Naveen P, Estall Jennifer L
Abstract excerpt
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1-α (PGC-1α) is a highly conserved transcriptional coactivator enriched in metabolically active tissues including liver, adipose, pancreas, and muscle. It plays a role in regulating whole body energy metabolism and its deregulation has been implicated in type 2 diabetes (T2D). A single nucleotide variant of the PPARGC1A gene (rs8192678) is associated with...
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