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Replication of Type 2 diabetes-associated variants in a Saudi Arabian population.
Physiological genomics - 1 Apr 2018
Li-Gao Ruifang, Wakil Salma M, Meyer Brian F, Dzimiri Nduna, Mook-Kanamori Dennis O
Abstract excerpt
Over 120 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) loci have been identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), mainly from Caucasian populations. Very limited knowledge is available on the Saudi Arabian population. In this study, 122 previously reported T2D-related variants from 84 loci were examined in a Saudi Arabian cohort of 1,578 individuals (659 T2D cases and 919 controls). Eleven single nucleotide polymorphisms...
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