Linkage of Type 2 Diabetes on Chromosome 9p24 in Mexican Americans: Additional Evidence from the Veterans Administration Genetic Epidemiology Study (VAGES)
Author(s) -
Vidya S. Farook,
Dawn K. Coletta,
Sobha Puppala,
Jennifer L. Schneider,
Geetha Chittoor,
Shirley L. Hu,
Deidre A. Winnier,
Luke Norton,
Thomas D. Dyer,
Rector Arya,
Shelley A. Cole,
Melanie A. Carless,
Harald H.H. Göring,
Laura Almasy,
Michael C. Mahaney,
Anthony G. Comuzzie,
Joanne E. Curran,
John Blangero,
Ravindranath Duggirala,
Donna M. Lehman,
Christopher P. Jenkinson,
Ralph A. DeFronzo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
human heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1423-0062
pISSN - 0001-5652
DOI - 10.1159/000354849
Subject(s) - genetics , epidemiology , linkage (software) , genetic epidemiology , chromosome , biology , medicine , gene
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a complex metabolic disease and is more prevalent in certain ethnic groups such as the Mexican Americans. The goal of our study was to perform a genome-wide linkage (GWL) analysis to localize T2DM susceptibility loci in Mexican Americans.
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