Transferability of type 2 diabetes implicated loci in multi-ethnic cohorts from Southeast Asia

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sim, Xueling ^a   Ong, Rick Twee Hee ^a,b   Suo, Chen ^a   Tay, Wan Ting ^c   Liu, Jianjun ^b   Ng, Daniel Peng Keat ^a   Boehnke, Michael ^d   Chia, Kee Seng ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,c,e   Seielstad, Mark ^b,g   Teo, Yik Ying ^a,b   Tai, E Shyong ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CDKAL1 GENE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HHEX GENE; HUMAN; IDE GENE; INDIAN; KIF11 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHEAST ASIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

CDKAL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; KIF11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KINESIN;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 5; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; KINESIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79955638028     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001363     Document Type: Article

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