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Lower Dietary Intake of Plant Protein Is Associated with Genetic Risk of Diabetes-Related Traits in Urban Asian Indian Adults.
Nutrients - 31 Aug 2021
Alsulami Sooad, Bodhini Dhanasekaran, Sudha Vasudevan, Shanthi Rani Coimbatore Subramanian, Pradeepa Rajendra, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, Radha Venkatesan, Lovegrove Julie A, Gayathri Rajagopal, Mohan Viswanathan, Vimaleswaran Karani Santhanakrishnan
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The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes among South Asians is caused by a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors. We aimed to examine the impact of dietary and genetic factors on metabolic traits in 1062 Asian Indians. Dietary assessment was performed using a validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the Transcription...
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