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SUBMITTER: Huerta-Chagoya A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4431878 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huerta-Chagoya Alicia A Vázquez-Cárdenas Paola P Moreno-Macías Hortensia H Tapia-Maruri Leonardo L Rodríguez-Guillén Rosario R López-Vite Erika E García-Escalante Guadalupe G Escobedo-Aguirre Fernando F Parra-Covarrubias Adalberto A Cordero-Brieño Roberto R Manzo-Carrillo Lizette L Zacarías-Castillo Rogelio R Vargas-García Carlos C Aguilar-Salinas Carlos C Tusié-Luna Teresa T
PloS one 20150514 5
Epidemiological and physiological similarities among Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) suggest that both diseases, share a common genetic background. T2D risk variants have been associated to GDM susceptibility. However, the genetic architecture of GDM is not yet completely understood. We analyzed 176 SNPs for 115 loci previously associated to T2D, GDM and body mass index (BMI), as well as a set of 118 Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs), in 750 pregnant Mexican women ...[more]