Replication study for the association of 9 East Asian GWAS-derived loci with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in a Japanese population.

<h4>Aims</h4>East Asian genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for type 2 diabetes identified 8 loci with genome-wide significance, and 2 loci with a borderline association. However, the associations of these loci except MAEA locus with type 2 diabetes have not been evaluated in independ...

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Main Authors: Kensuke Sakai, Minako Imamura, Yasushi Tanaka, Minoru Iwata, Hiroshi Hirose, Kohei Kaku, Hiroshi Maegawa, Hirotaka Watada, Kazuyuki Tobe, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Ryuzo Kawamori, Shiro Maeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24086726/pdf/?tool=EBI