Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes.

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Published in Nat Genet on August 12, 2012

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Andrew P Morris1, Benjamin F Voight, Tanya M Teslovich, Teresa Ferreira, Ayellet V Segrè, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Rona J Strawbridge, Hassan Khan, Harald Grallert, Anubha Mahajan, Inga Prokopenko, Hyun Min Kang, Christian Dina, Tonu Esko, Ross M Fraser, Stavroula Kanoni, Ashish Kumar, Vasiliki Lagou, Claudia Langenberg, Jian'an Luan, Cecilia M Lindgren, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Sonali Pechlivanis, N William Rayner, Laura J Scott, Steven Wiltshire, Loic Yengo, Leena Kinnunen, Elizabeth J Rossin, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Andrew D Johnson, Antigone S Dimas, Ruth J F Loos, Sailaja Vedantam, Han Chen, Jose C Florez, Caroline Fox, Ching-Ti Liu, Denis Rybin, David J Couper, Wen Hong L Kao, Man Li, Marilyn C Cornelis, Peter Kraft, Qi Sun, Rob M van Dam, Heather M Stringham, Peter S Chines, Krista Fischer, Pierre Fontanillas, Oddgeir L Holmen, Sarah E Hunt, Anne U Jackson, Augustine Kong, Robert Lawrence, Julia Meyer, John R B Perry, Carl G P Platou, Simon Potter, Emil Rehnberg, Neil Robertson, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Alena Stančáková, Kathleen Stirrups, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Emmi Tikkanen, Andrew R Wood, Peter Almgren, Mustafa Atalay, Rafn Benediktsson, Lori L Bonnycastle, Noël Burtt, Jason Carey, Guillaume Charpentier, Andrew T Crenshaw, Alex S F Doney, Mozhgan Dorkhan, Sarah Edkins, Valur Emilsson, Elodie Eury, Tom Forsen, Karl Gertow, Bruna Gigante, George B Grant, Christopher J Groves, Candace Guiducci, Christian Herder, Astradur B Hreidarsson, Jennie Hui, Alan James, Anna Jonsson, Wolfgang Rathmann, Norman Klopp, Jasmina Kravic, Kaarel Krjutškov, Cordelia Langford, Karin Leander, Eero Lindholm, Stéphane Lobbens, Satu Männistö, Ghazala Mirza, Thomas W Mühleisen, Bill Musk, Melissa Parkin, Loukianos Rallidis, Jouko Saramies, Bengt Sennblad, Sonia Shah, Gunnar Sigurðsson, Angela Silveira, Gerald Steinbach, Barbara Thorand, Joseph Trakalo, Fabrizio Veglia, Roman Wennauer, Wendy Winckler, Delilah Zabaneh, Harry Campbell, Cornelia van Duijn, Andre G Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Eric Sijbrands, Goncalo R Abecasis, Katharine R Owen, Eleftheria Zeggini, Mieke D Trip, Nita G Forouhi, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Johan G Eriksson, Leena Peltonen, Markus M Nöthen, Beverley Balkau, Colin N A Palmer, Valeriya Lyssenko, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Bo Isomaa, David J Hunter, Lu Qi, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Meta-Analyses of Glucose and Insulin-related traits Consortium (MAGIC) Investigators, Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium, Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network–Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, Alan R Shuldiner, Michael Roden, Ines Barroso, Tom Wilsgaard, John Beilby, Kees Hovingh, Jackie F Price, James F Wilson, Rainer Rauramaa, Timo A Lakka, Lars Lind, George Dedoussis, Inger Njølstad, Nancy L Pedersen, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nicholas J Wareham, Sirkka M Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Timo E Saaristo, Eeva Korpi-Hyövälti, Juha Saltevo, Markku Laakso, Johanna Kuusisto, Andres Metspalu, Francis S Collins, Karen L Mohlke, Richard N Bergman, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Bernhard O Boehm, Christian Gieger, Kristian Hveem, Stephane Cauchi, Philippe Froguel, Damiano Baldassarre, Elena Tremoli, Steve E Humphries, Danish Saleheen, John Danesh, Erik Ingelsson, Samuli Ripatti, Veikko Salomaa, Raimund Erbel, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Susanne Moebus, Annette Peters, Thomas Illig, Ulf de Faire, Anders Hamsten, Andrew D Morris, Peter J Donnelly, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew T Hattersley, Eric Boerwinkle, Olle Melander, Sekar Kathiresan, Peter M Nilsson, Panos Deloukas, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Leif C Groop, Kari Stefansson, Frank Hu, James S Pankow, Josée Dupuis, James B Meigs, David Altshuler, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK. amorris@well.ox.ac.uk

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