ea0016p201 | Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | ECE2008
Fischer Antje
, Fisher Eva
, Moehlig Matthias
, Osterhoff Martin
, Weickert Martin O
, Pfeifer Andreas FH
, Boeing Heiner
, Spranger Joachim
The diabetic epidemic is increasing worldwide. The suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) provides a link between cytokine action and their negative consequences on insulin signaling. This potential influence on the development of T2DM makes the gene a potential candidate gene for type 2 diabetes.We investigated the one haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphism (htSNP) rs4969168 to examine the impact on T2DM in two independent study population...