The genetics of insulin resistance: Where's Waldo?

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 476-484

  Watanabe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Euglycemic glucose clamp; Frequently sampled intravenous glucose tolerance test; Genetic association; Genome wide association; HOMA IR; Insulin resistance; Minimal model; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOKINASE REGULATOR PROTEIN; HEXOKINASE; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; SOMATOMEDIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 77958501424     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-010-0143-1     Document Type: Review

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