Assessing the combined impact of 18 common genetic variants of modest effect sizes on type 2 diabetes risk.

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Published in Diabetes on June 30, 2008

Authors

Hana Lango1, UK Type 2 Diabetes Genetics Consortium, Colin N A Palmer, Andrew D Morris, Eleftheria Zeggini, Andrew T Hattersley, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling, Michael N Weedon

Author Affiliations

1: Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, UK.

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