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SUBMITTER: Busfield F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC384914 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Busfield Frances F Duffy David L DL Kesting Janine B JB Walker Shelley M SM Lovelock Paul K PK Good David D Tate Heather H Watego Denise D Marczak Maureen M Hayman Noel N Shaw Joanne T E JT
American journal of human genetics 20011212 2
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among Australian residents is 7.5%; however, prevalence rates up to six times higher have been reported for indigenous Australian communities. Epidemiological evidence implicates genetic factors in the susceptibility of indigenous Australians to type 2 diabetes and supports the hypothesis of the "thrifty genotype," but, to date, the nature of the genetic predisposition is unknown. We have ascertained clinical details from a community of indigenous Australian des ...[more]