Consistent association of type 2 diabetes risk variants found in europeans in diverse racial and ethnic groups

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Waters, Kevin M ^a   Stram, Daniel O ^a   Hassanein, Mohamed T ^a   le Marchand, Loïc ^b   Wilkens, Lynne R ^b   Maskarinec, Gertraud ^b   Monroe, Kristine R ^a   Kolonel, Laurence N ^b   Altshuler, David ^c,d,e   Henderson, Brian E ^a   Haiman, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RACE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77957370404     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001078     Document Type: Article

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