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Could personalised risk prediction for type 2 diabetes using polygenic risk scores direct prevention, enhance diagnostics, or improve treatment?
2020-09-04
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Over the past three decades, the number of people globally with diabetes mellitus has more than doubled. It is estimated that by 2030, 439 million people will be suffering from the disease, 90-95% of whom will have type 2 diabetes (T2D). In 2017, 5 million deaths globally were attributable to T2D, placing it in the top 10 global causes of death. Because T2D is a result of both genetic and environmental factors, id...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 275d0ce3-21c9-5b7d-865e-bc6da34419dd
- DOI
- 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16251.1
