Gender-dependent associations of CDKN2A/2B, KCNJ11, POLI, SLC30A8, and TCF7L2 variants with type 2 diabetes in (North African) Tunisian Arabs

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Turki, Amira ^a   Al Zaben, Ghadeer S ^b   Khirallah, Moncef ^c   Marmouch, Hela ^c   Mahjoub, Touhami ^a   Almawi, Wassim Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^c FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Genetic association studies; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; TYPE 2 DIABETES;

ARABS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P15; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DNA POLYMERASE I; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7-LIKE 2 PROTEIN; TUNISIA;

EID: 84898926505     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: 18728227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2013.12.040     Document Type: Article

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