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SUBMITTER: Villegas R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4094781 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villegas Raquel R Goodloe Robert J RJ McClellan Bob E BE Boston Jonathan J Crawford Dana C DC
BMC genetics 20140614
<h4>Background</h4>Both environmental and genetic factors impact type 2 diabetes (T2D). To identify such modifiers, we genotyped 15 T2D-associated variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 6,414 non-Hispanic whites, 3,073 non-Hispanic blacks, and 3,633 Mexican American participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and evaluated interactions between these variants and carbohydrate intake and fiber intake.<h4>Results</h4>We calculated a genetic risk ...[more]