Genetic analysis of recently identified type 2 diabetes loci in 1,638 unselected patients with type 2 diabetes and 1,858 control participants from a Norwegian population-based cohort (the HUNT study)

Diabetologia

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 971-977

  Hertel, J K ^a,b   Johansson, S ^a,b   Raeder H ^a,b   Midthjell, K ^c   Lyssenko, V ^d   Groop, L ^d,e   Molven, A ^a,b   Njolstad P R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Association study; BMI; GWA; Replication; Single nucleotide polymorphism; SNP; Susceptibility gene; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNT STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORD TRONDELAG HEALTH STUDY; NORWAY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COHORT STUDIES; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 43049149732     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-008-0982-3     Document Type: Article

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