Casting a wider net for diabetes susceptibility genes.
Recent successes in identifying loci involved in predisposition to type 2 diabetes have been driven by genome-wide association studies in populations of European descent. A new discovery, using samples of East Asian origin, of diabetes susceptibility variants mapping to the KCNQ1 gene highlights the...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2008
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