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SUBMITTER: Talmud PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4407866 | biostudies-other | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Talmud Philippa J PJ Cooper Jackie A JA Morris Richard W RW Dudbridge Frank F Shah Tina T Engmann Jorgen J Dale Caroline C White Jon J McLachlan Stela S Zabaneh Delilah D Wong Andrew A Ong Ken K KK Gaunt Tom T Holmes Michael V MV Lawlor Debbie A DA Richards Marcus M Hardy Rebecca R Kuh Diana D Wareham Nicholas N Langenberg Claudia C Ben-Shlomo Yoav Y Wannamethee S Goya SG Strachan Mark W J MW Kumari Meena M Whittaker John C JC Drenos Fotios F Kivimaki Mika M Hingorani Aroon D AD Price Jacqueline F JF Humphries Steve E SE
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We developed a 65 type 2 diabetes (T2D) variant-weighted gene score to examine the impact on T2D risk assessment in a U.K.-based consortium of prospective studies, with subjects initially free from T2D (N = 13,294; 37.3% women; mean age 58.5 [38-99] years). We compared the performance of the gene score with the phenotypically derived Framingham Offspring Study T2D risk model and then the two in combination. Over the median 10 years of follow-up, 804 participants developed T2D. The odds ratio for ...[more]