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Characterization of Large Copy Number Variation in Mexican Type 2 Diabetes subjects.
Scientific reports - 6 Dec 2017
de Jesús Ascencio-Montiel Iván, Pinto Dalila, Parra Esteban J, Valladares-Salgado Adán, Cruz Miguel, Scherer Stephen W
Abstract excerpt
The effect of Copy Number Variants (CNVs) on Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) remains little explored. The present study characterized large rare CNVs in 686 T2D and 194 non-T2D subjects of Mexican ancestry genotyped using the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP array 5.0. Rare CNVs with ≥ 100 kb length were identified using a stringent strategy based on merging CNVs calls generated using Birdsuit, iPattern and PennCNV...
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