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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Chapa EG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5451767 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
García-Chapa Eiralí Guadalupe EG Leal-Ugarte Evelia E Peralta-Leal Valeria V Durán-González Jorge J Meza-Espinoza Juan Pablo JP
BioMed research international 20170518
There are currently about 415 million people with diabetes worldwide, a figure likely to increase to 642 million by 2040. In 2015, Mexico was the second Latin American country and sixth in the world in prevalence of this disorder with nearly 11.5 million of patients. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the main kind of diabetes and its etiology is complex with environmental and genetic factors involved. Indeed, polymorphisms in several genes have been associated with this disease worldwide. To estimate the ...[more]