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Nature Genetics 31, 379–384 (1 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/ng926

Digenic inheritance of severe insulin resistance in a human pedigree

David B. Savage , Maura Agostini , In|[ecirc]|s Barroso , Mark Gurnell , Jian'an Luan , Aline Meirhaeghe , Anne-Helen Harding , Gudrun Ihrke , Odelia Rajanayagam , Maria A. Soos , Stella George , Dirk Berger , E. Louise Thomas , Jimmy D. Bell , Karim Meeran , Richard J. Ross , Antonio Vidal-Puig , Nicholas J. Wareham , Stephen O'Rahilly , V. Krishna K. Chatterjee & Alan J. Schafer

Impaired insulin action is a key feature of type 2 diabetes and is also found, to a more extreme degree, in familial syndromes of insulin resistance. Although inherited susceptibility to insulin resistance may involve the interplay of several genetic loci, no clear examples of interactions among genes have yet been reported.