Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies a Novel Locus Contributing to Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility in Sikhs of Punjabi Origin From India

We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a multistage meta-analysis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Punjabi Sikhs from India. Our discovery GWAS in 1,616 individuals (842 case subjects) was followed by in silico replication of the top 513 independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...

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Main Authors: Saxena, Richa, Saleheen, Danish, Been, Latonya F., Garavito, Martha L., Braun, Timothy, Bjonnes, Andrew, Young, Robin, Ho, Weang Kee, Rasheed, Asif, Frossard, Philippe, Sim, Xueling, Hassanali, Neelam, Radha, Venkatesan, Chidambaram, Manickam, Liju, Samuel, Rees, Simon D., Ng, Daniel Peng-Keat, Wong, Tien-Yin, Yamauchi, Toshimasa, Hara, Kazuo, Tanaka, Yasushi, Hirose, Hiroshi, McCarthy, Mark I., Morris, Andrew P., Basit, Abdul, Barnett, Anthony H., Katulanda, Prasad, Matthews, David, Mohan, Viswanathan, Wander, Gurpreet S., Singh, Jai Rup, Mehra, Narinder K., Ralhan, Sarju, Kamboh, M. Ilyas, Mulvihill, John J., Maegawa, Hiroshi, Tobe, Kazuyuki, Maeda, Shiro, Cho, Yoon S., Tai, E. Shyong, Kelly, M. Ann, Chambers, John C., Kooner, Jaspal S., Kadowaki, Takashi, Deloukas, Panos, Rader, Daniel J., Danesh, John, Sanghera, Dharambir K.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Diabetes Association 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636649/