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NATURE GENETICS
卷 39, 期 2, 页码 218-225出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng1960
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- FIC NIH HHS [3T37TW00041-03S2] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-54001] Funding Source: Medline
We recently described an association between risk of type 2 diabetes and variants in the transcription factor 7- like 2 gene ( TCF7L2; formerly TCF4), with a population attributable risk ( PAR) of 17% - 28% in three populations of European ancestry(1). Here, we refine the definition of the TCF7L2 type 2 diabetes risk variant, HapB(T2D), to the ancestral T allele of a SNP, rs7903146, through replication in West African and Danish type 2 diabetes case-control studies and an expanded Icelandic study. We also identify another variant of the same gene, HapA, that shows evidence of positive selection in East Asian, European and West African populations. Notably, HapA shows a suggestive association with body mass index and altered concentrations of the hunger-satiety hormones ghrelin and leptin in males, indicating that the selective advantage of HapA may have been mediated through effects on energy metabolism.
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