The insulin gene variable number tandem repeat class I/III polymorphism is in linkage disequilibrium with birth weight but not type 2 diabetes in the Pima population

Diabetes

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 187-193

  Lindsay, Robert S ^a   Hanson, Robert L ^a,b   Wiedrich, Chris ^a   Knowler, William C ^a   Bennett, Peter H ^a   Baier, Leslie J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Digestive and Kidney Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARENT; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INSULIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0037222393     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.1.187     Document Type: Article

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