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The relationship of family history and risk of type 2 diabetes differs by ancestry.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Jun 2019
Kral Brian G, Becker Diane M, Yanek Lisa R, Vaidya Dhananjay, Mathias Rasika A, Becker Lewis C, Kalyani Rita R
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in a first-degree relative is a risk factor for incident diabetes. Americans of African ancestry (AA) have higher rates of T2DM than Americans of European ancestry (EA). Thus, we aimed to determine whether the presence, number and kinship of affected relatives are associated with race-specific T2DM incidence in a prospective study of participants from the Genetic Study of...
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