FUT2 nonfunctional variant: A "missing link" between genes and environment in type 1 diabetes?

Diabetes

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2685-2687

  Yang, Ping ^a   Li, Hong Liang ^b   Wang, Cong Yi ^a,c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; BODILY SECRETIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 80755148727     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db11-1104     Document Type: Note

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