Diabetes Genomics & Genetics
Type 2 diabetes susceptibility genes found in West Africans
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 26th, 2004
According to a study from the United States, Nigeria, and Ghana, "The incidence of type 2 diabetes is growing rapidly, not only in developed countries but also worldwide. We chose to study type 2 diabetes in West Africa, where diabetes is less common than in the U.S., reasoning that in an environment where calories are less abundant, incident cases of type 2 diabetes might carry a proportionately greater genetic component.
"Through the Africa America Diabetes Mellitus (AADM) study, we carried out a genome-wide linkage analysis of type 2 diabetes in a cohort of 343 affected...
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