Article
Genetic studies of polymorphisms in ten non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus candidate genes in Tamil Indians from Pondichery.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Jun 1998
Leprêtre F, Vionnet N, Budhan S, Dina C, Powell K L, Génin E, Das A K, Nallam V, Passa P, Froguel P
Abstract excerpt
We report a study of 10 candidate genes presumably involved in diabetes or insulin resistance or obesity among Pondicherian Tamil Indians, an isolated population with a high prevalence of diabetes. Forty-nine families with at least two affected patients in the sibship (567 individuals) were selec...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Analysis of Variance
- Chromosome Mapping
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- India
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic
