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SUBMITTER: Rasmussen-Torvik LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2748141 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rasmussen-Torvik Laura J LJ Pankow James S JS Jacobs David R DR Sinaiko Alan R AR
Metabolism: clinical and experimental 20090701 10
There are conflicting reports about the significance of TCF7L2 single nucleotide polymorphism rs7903146, a single nucleotide polymorphism found to be associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus in several genomewide association studies, and insulin sensitivity. The association of rs7903146 and euglycemic-clamp-derived insulin sensitivity was tested in a cohort of children and their parents. Four hundred seventy whites (from 226 families) and 89 African Americans (from 48 families) were included in ...[more]