Evidence that BMI and type 2 diabetes share only a minor fraction of genetic variance: A follow-up study of 23,585 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the Finnish twin cohort Study

Diabetologia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1314-1321

  Lehtovirta, M ^a   Pietilainen K H ^a   Levalahti E ^a   Heikkila K ^a   Groop, L ^b   Silventoinen, K ^a   Koskenvuo, M ^a   Kaprio, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Follow up studies; Proportional hazards models; Twins; Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; TWIN CONCORDANCE; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77955665767     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-010-1746-4     Document Type: Article

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