Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and Clinical Utility

• Main Authors: Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Liu, Jianjun, Boehm, Bernhard Otto
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Type 2 diabetes; Genetics; Clinical utility
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81003; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39027
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A large proportion of heritability of type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been attributed to inherent genetics. Recent genetic studies, especially genome-wide association studies (GWAS), have identified a multitude of variants associated with T2D. It is thus reasonable to question if these findings may be uti...