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Progress in Defining the Genetic Contribution to Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry.
Current diabetes reports - 13 Apr 2021
Spracklen Cassandra N, Sim Xueling
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and progression of complications differ between worldwide populations. While obesity is a major contributing risk factor, variations in physiological manifestations, e.g., developing T2D at lower body mass index in some populations, suggest other contributing factors. Early T2D genetic associations were mostly discovered in European ancestry populations. This...
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