Type 2 Diabetes

Study findings from Harvard University broaden understanding of type 2 diabetes

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 15th, 2009

"Genome-wide association studies have identified novel type 2 diabetes loci, each of which has a modest impact on risk. To examine the joint effects of several type 2 diabetes risk variants and their combination with conventional risk factors on type 2 diabetes risk in 2 prospective cohorts," scientists writing in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine report.

"Nested case-control study. United States. 2809 patients with type 2 diabetes and 3501 healthy control participants of European ancestry from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and Nurses' Health Study. A genetic risk score (GRS) was calculated on the basis of 10 polymorphisms in 9 loci. After...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2009-06-15)

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