Identification of genetic effects underlying type 2 diabetes in South Asian and European populations

• Main Authors: Loh, Marie, Zhang, Weihua, Ng, Hong Kiat, Schmid, Katharina, Lamri, Amel, Tong, Lin, Meraj Ahmad, Lee, Jung-Jin, Ng, Maggie C. Y., Petty, Lauren E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Md. Tariqul Islam, Jasmine, Farzana, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Muhammad Kibriya, Mohlke, Karen L., Paré, Guillaume, Prasad, Gauri, Mohammad Shahriar, Chee, Miao Ling, de Silva, H. Janaka, Engert, James C., Gerstein, Hertzel C., Mani, K. Radha, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Vujkovic, Marijana, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Wong, Tien Yin, Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Salim Yusuf, Habibul Ahsan, Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Anand, Sonia S., Below, Jennifer E., Boehnke, Michael, Bowden, Donald W., Chandak, Giriraj R., Cheng, Ching-Yu, Kato, Norihiro, Mahajan, Anubha, Sim, Xueling, McCarthy, Mark I., Morris, Andrew P., Kooner, Jaspal S., Saleheen, Danish, Chambers, John C.
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Diabetes; Genetic Variation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160910
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

South Asians are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). We carried out a genome-wide association meta-analysis with South Asian T2D cases (n = 16,677) and controls (n = 33,856), followed by combined analyses with Europeans (neff = 231,420). We identify 21 novel genetic loci for significan...