Resequencing and analysis of variation in the TCF7L2 gene in African Americans suggests that SNP rs7903146 is the causal diabetes susceptibility variant

Diabetes

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 662-668

  Palmer, Nicholette D ^a,b   Hester, Jessica M ^a,b   An, S Sandy ^a,b   Adeyemo, Adebowale ^c   Rotimi, Charles ^c   Langefeld, Carl D ^b   Freedman, Barry I ^a   Ng, Maggie C Y ^a,b   Bowden, Donald W ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 2;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ALLELES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7-LIKE 2 PROTEIN;

EID: 79551609852     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db10-0134     Document Type: Article

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