Genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes in Indians identifies a new susceptibility locus at 2q21.
Rubina Tabassum,
Ganesh Chauhan,
Om Prakash Dwivedi,
Anubha Mahajan,
Alok Jaiswal,
Ismeet Kaur,
Khushdeep Bandesh,
Tejbir Singh,
Benan John Mathai,
Yogesh Pandey,
Manickam Chidambaram,
Amitabh Sharma,
Sreenivas Chavali,
Shantanu Sengupta,
Lakshmi Ramakrishnan,
Pradeep Venkatesh,
Sanjay K Aggarwal,
Saurabh Ghosh,
Dorairaj Prabhakaran,
Reddy K Srinath,
Madhukar Saxena,
Monisha Banerjee,
Sandeep Mathur,
Anil Bhansali,
Viral N Shah,
Sri Venkata Madhu,
Raman K Marwaha,
Analabha Basu,
Vinod Scaria,
Mark I McCarthy,
DIAGRAM,
INDICO,
Radha Venkatesan,
Viswanathan Mohan,
Nikhil Tandon,
Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
Feb 22, 2018
Indians undergoing socioeconomic and lifestyle transitions will be maximally affected by epidemic of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of T2D in 12,535 Indians, a less explored but...