ea0026p724 | Diabetes (epidemiology, pathophysiology) | ECE2011
Ferreira M C
, Marques M C A
, Fukui R T
, Correia M R
, Silva M E R
, Rocha D M
, Santos R F
Aims/hypothesis: Several data have shown the association between diabetes type 2 (DM2) and transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene polymorphisms, in several and different ethnical populations. Although the pathophysiology is not completely clear, it seems that beta and alpha cell functions are abnormal. Up to these days there is no clinical data showing association between TCF7L2 gene polymorphism allele rs7903146 T and beta cell insulin and C-peptide contents in DM2 patie...