ea0032oc6.1 | Diabetes & Obesity | ECE2013
Pignatelli Duarte
, Palmeiro Aida
, Lopes Alexandra
, Dias Luis
, Tavares Purificacao
, Rendeiro Paula
Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is one of the most common health problems worldwide and its prevalence is rapidly increasing. Although environmental factors play a substantial role in the etiology, genetic susceptibility has been established as an important risk factor. Several recent genome-wide studies and linkage analysis testing have identified and confirmed various T2D susceptibility loci. However, as demonstrated by the results of the HapMap project and by other s...