Publication Date:
2016-01-30
Description:
Article Here, Imamura et al . conduct meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to identify novel susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the Japanese population. By doing so, this study shows that both ethnicity-specific and ethnically-shared genetic loci can contribute to T2D risk. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms10531 Authors: Minako Imamura, Atsushi Takahashi, Toshimasa Yamauchi, Kazuo Hara, Kazuki Yasuda, Niels Grarup, Wei Zhao, Xu Wang, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Cheng Hu, Sanghoon Moon, Jirong Long, Soo Heon Kwak, Asif Rasheed, Richa Saxena, Ronald C. W. Ma, Yukinori Okada, Minoru Iwata, Jun Hosoe, Nobuhiro Shojima, Minaka Iwasaki, Hayato Fujita, Ken Suzuki, John Danesh, Torben Jørgensen, Marit E. Jørgensen, Daniel R. Witte, Ivan Brandslund, Cramer Christensen, Torben Hansen, Josep M. Mercader, Jason Flannick, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Noël P. Burtt, Rong Zhang, Young Jin Kim, Wei Zheng, Jai Rup Singh, Claudia H. T. Tam, Hiroshi Hirose, Hiroshi Maegawa, Chikako Ito, Kohei Kaku, Hirotaka Watada, Yasushi Tanaka, Kazuyuki Tobe, Ryuzo Kawamori, Michiaki Kubo, Yoon Shin Cho, Juliana C. N. Chan, Dharambir Sanghera, Philippe Frossard, Kyong Soo Park, Xiao-Ou Shu, Bong-Jo Kim, Jose C. Florez, Teresa Tusié-Luna, Weiping Jia, E Shyong Tai, Oluf Pedersen, Danish Saleheen, Shiro Maeda, Takashi Kadowaki
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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