Response to Comment on: Maruthur et al. Does Genetic Ancestry Explain Higher Values of Glycated Hemoglobin in African Americans? Diabetes 2011;60:2434–2438 | Zendy

Nisa M. Maruthur | Zendy; W.H. Linda Kao | Zendy; Elizabeth Selvin | Zendy

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Response to Comment on: Maruthur et al. Does Genetic Ancestry Explain Higher Values of Glycated Hemoglobin in African Americans? Diabetes 2011;60:2434–2438

Author(s) -

Nisa M. Maruthur,

W.H. Linda Kao,

Elizabeth Selvin

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

diabetes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.219

H-Index - 330

eISSN - 1939-327X

pISSN - 0012-1797

DOI - 10.2337/db11-1379

Subject(s) - glycated hemoglobin , diabetes mellitus , medicine , endocrinology , type 2 diabetes

We appreciate the interest of Dagogo-Jack (1) in our study of genetic ancestry and HbA1c in African Americans (2). We interpret his major concerns as follows: 1 ) HbA1c values may have a glucose-independent genetic component and 2 ) in our study, adjustment for glucose did not fully account for HbA1c values ≥6.5%.Our goal was to evaluate if differences in genetic ancestry might explain differences in HbA1c between individuals of …

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