Article
Genetic Susceptibility to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in a Chinese Population.
Frontiers in endocrinology - 1 Jan 2020
Cao Minkai, Zhang Le, Chen Ting, Shi Aiwu, Xie Kaipeng, Li Zhengying, Xu Jianjuan, Chen Zhong, Ji Chenbo, Wen Juan
Abstract excerpt
Introduction: New genetic variants associated with susceptibility to obesity and metabolic diseases have been discovered in recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of theses risk variants with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods: We performed a case-control study including 964 unrelated pregnant women with GDM and 1,021 pregnant women with...
Topics
- Adult
- Asian People
- Biomarkers
- Case-Control Studies
- China
- Diabetes, Gestational
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
