Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on February 09, 2012

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Richa Saxena1, Clara C Elbers, Yiran Guo, Inga Peter, Tom R Gaunt, Jessica L Mega, Matthew B Lanktree, Archana Tare, Berta Almoguera Castillo, Yun R Li, Toby Johnson, Marcel Bruinenberg, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Benjamin F Voight, Ashok Balasubramanyam, John Barnard, Florianne Bauer, Jens Baumert, Tushar Bhangale, Bernhard O Böhm, Peter S Braund, Paul R Burton, Hareesh R Chandrupatla, Robert Clarke, Rhonda M Cooper-DeHoff, Errol D Crook, George Davey-Smith, Ian N Day, Anthonius de Boer, Mark C H de Groot, Fotios Drenos, Jane Ferguson, Caroline S Fox, Clement E Furlong, Quince Gibson, Christian Gieger, Lisa A Gilhuijs-Pederson, Joseph T Glessner, Anuj Goel, Yan Gong, Struan F A Grant, Diederick E Grobbee, Claire Hastie, Steve E Humphries, Cecilia E Kim, Mika Kivimaki, Marcus Kleber, Christa Meisinger, Meena Kumari, Taimour Y Langaee, Debbie A Lawlor, Mingyao Li, Maximilian T Lobmeyer, Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee, Matthijs F L Meijs, Cliona M Molony, David A Morrow, Gurunathan Murugesan, Solomon K Musani, Christopher P Nelson, Stephen J Newhouse, Jeffery R O'Connell, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Jutta Palmen, Sanjey R Patel, Carl J Pepine, Mary Pettinger, Thomas S Price, Suzanne Rafelt, Jane Ranchalis, Asif Rasheed, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Ingo Ruczinski, Sonia Shah, Haiqing Shen, Günther Silbernagel, Erin N Smith, Annemieke W M Spijkerman, Alice Stanton, Michael W Steffes, Barbara Thorand, Mieke Trip, Pim van der Harst, Daphne L van der A, Erik P A van Iperen, Jessica van Setten, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel, Taylor Young, M Hadi Zafarmand, Joseph M Zmuda, Look AHEAD Research Group, DIAGRAM consortium, Michael Boehnke, David Altshuler, Mark McCarthy, W H Linda Kao, James S Pankow, Thomas P Cappola, Peter Sever, Neil Poulter, Mark Caulfield, Anna Dominiczak, Denis C Shields, Deepak L Bhatt, Deepak Bhatt, Li Zhang, Sean P Curtis, John Danesh, Juan P Casas, Yvonne T van der Schouw, N Charlotte Onland-Moret, Pieter A Doevendans, Gerald W Dorn, Martin Farrall, Garret A FitzGerald, Anders Hamsten, Robert Hegele, Aroon D Hingorani, Marten H Hofker, Gordon S Huggins, Thomas Illig, Gail P Jarvik, Julie A Johnson, Olaf H Klungel, William C Knowler, Wolfgang Koenig, Winfried März, James B Meigs, Olle Melander, Patricia B Munroe, Braxton D Mitchell, Susan J Bielinski, Daniel J Rader, Muredach P Reilly, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Danish Saleheen, Nilesh J Samani, Eric E Schadt, Alan R Shuldiner, Roy Silverstein, Kandice Kottke-Marchant, Philippa J Talmud, Hugh Watkins, Folkert W Asselbergs, Folkert Asselbergs, Paul I W de Bakker, Jeanne McCaffery, Cisca Wijmenga, Marc S Sabatine, James G Wilson, Alex Reiner, Donald W Bowden, Hakon Hakonarson, David S Siscovick, Brendan J Keating

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA. rsaxena@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu

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