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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Seungwoo Hwang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26244 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Hwang Seungwoo S Kwak Soo Heon SH Bhak Jong J Kang Hae Sun HS Lee You Ri YR Koo Bo Kyung BK Park Kyong Soo KS Lee Hong Kyu HK Cho Young Min YM
PloS one 20110713 7
Decreased mitochondrial function plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Recently, it was reported that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups confer genetic susceptibility to T2DM in Koreans and Japanese. Particularly, mtDNA haplogroup N9a is associated with a decreased risk of T2DM, whereas haplogroups D5 and F are associated with an increased risk. To examine functional consequences of these haplogroups without being confounded by the heterogeneous nuclear ...[more]