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The Role of TCF7L2 in Type 2 Diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Jun 2021
Del Bosque-Plata Laura, Martínez-Martínez Eduardo, Espinoza-Camacho Miguel Ángel, Gragnoli Claudia
Abstract excerpt
TCF7L2 is the most potent locus for type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk and the first locus to have been robustly reported by genomic linkage studies. TCF7L2 is a transcription factor that forms a basic part of the Wnt signaling pathway. This gene has highly conserved sequence regions that correspond to functional domains. The association of TCF7L2 with T2D is one of the most powerful genetically discovered in studies of...
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