HbA1c levels are genetically determined even in type 1 diabetes: Evidence from healthy and diabetic twins

Diabetes

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2858-2863

  Snieder, Harold ^a,b   Sawtell, Pamela A ^c   Ross, Lesley ^d   Walker, James ^d   Spector, Tim D ^a   Leslie, R David Graham ^c,e  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Dominion House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN-DEPENDENT; FASTING; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0035653627     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.50.12.2858     Document Type: Article

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