Genetic background of people in the Dominican Republic with or without obese type 2 diabetes revealed by mitochondrial DNA polymorphism

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 495-499

  Tajima, Atsushi ^a   Hamaguchi, Kazuyuki ^b   Terao, Hideo ^c   Oribe, Ayako ^b   Perrotta, Victor M ^d   Baez, Carlos Amoros ^d   Arias, Jose R ^e   Yoshimatsu, Hironobu ^b   Sakata, Toshiie ^f   Horai, Satoshi ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INDEN   (Dominican Republic)

^e Centro de Gastroenterologia   (Dominican Republic)

^f NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

D loop region; Dominican Republic; Mitochondrial DNA; Population structure; Sequence polymorphism

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC OBESITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 4744372507     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-004-0179-7     Document Type: Article

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