African Ancestry and Its Correlation to Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans: A Genetic Admixture Analysis in Three U.S. Population Cohorts

The risk of type 2 diabetes is approximately 2-fold higher in African Americans than in European Americans even after adjusting for known environmental risk factors, including socioeconomic status (SES), suggesting that genetic factors may explain some of this population difference in disease risk....

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Main Authors: Cheng, Ching-Yu, Reich, David, Haiman, Christopher A., Tandon, Arti, Patterson, Nick, Elizabeth, Selvin, Akylbekova, Ermeg L., Brancati, Frederick L., Coresh, Josef, Boerwinkle, Eric, Altshuler, David, Taylor, Herman A., Henderson, Brian E., Wilson, James G., Kao, W. H. Linda
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306373/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438884
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032840
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