Complement C3 Associates With Incidence of Diabetes, but No Evidence of a Causal Relationship
Author(s) -
Yan Borné,
Iram Faqir Muhammad,
Laura LorésMotta,
Bo Hedblad,
Peter M. Nilsson,
Olle Melander,
Eiko K. de Jong,
Anna M. Blom,
Anneke I. den Hollander,
Gunnar Engström
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2017-00948
Subject(s) - diabetes mellitus , genome wide association study , population , medicine , type 2 diabetes , locus (genetics) , hazard ratio , incidence (geometry) , biology , genetics , endocrinology , confidence interval , genotype , single nucleotide polymorphism , gene , physics , optics , environmental health
This study explored whether complement factor 3 (C3) in plasma is associated with incidence of diabetes in a population-based cohort. We also identified genetic variants related to C3 and explored whether C3 and diabetes share common genetic determinants.
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