Open AccessAssociation of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and fatty acid binding protein 2 (FABP2) genes polymorphism with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Northern India
Author(s) -
Syed Tasleem Raza,
Jalees Fatima,
Faisal Ahmed,
Shania Abbas,
Zeashan Haider Zaidi,
Seema Singh,
Farzana Mahdi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
jraas. journal of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system/journal of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1752-8976
pISSN - 1470-3203
DOI - 10.1177/1470320313481082
Subject(s) - type 2 diabetes mellitus , angiotensin converting enzyme , genotype , medicine , population , diabetes mellitus , gene polymorphism , incidence (geometry) , allele frequency , gastroenterology , biology , genetics , endocrinology , gene , blood pressure , physics , environmental health , optics
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is growing in an epidemic manner across the world with an expected doubling of the incidence to millions of affected individuals in the last decades. At present, adequate data are not available regarding the ACE and FABP2 polymorphisms and their susceptibility with T2DM cases in the North Indian population. Thus we conceived the need for further study of ACE (I/D) and FABP2 (Ala54Thr) genes polymorphism and its susceptibility to T2DM in the North Indian population.