Making the right associations

Diabetologia

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1241-1243

  McCarthy, M I ^a,b   Groop, P H ^c   Hansen, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; PERIODICALS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 23944479412     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1807-2     Document Type: Note

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