Recent progress in the use of genetics to understand links between type 2 diabetes and related metabolic traits

Genome-wide association studies have identified genetic variants associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The aim of this review is to highlight some of the insights into the mechanism underlying type 2 diabetes provided by genetic association studies.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2013-03-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-203PMID 23548046PMCID 3663087
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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