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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 3, 443–444 (1 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0485

New genetic risk factors identified for type 2 diabetes

Sladek R et al. (2007) A genome-wide association study identifies novel risk loci for type 2 diabetes. Nature 445: 881–885 The study of genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus has experienced rapid development since the advent of new molecular biological methods that enabled systematic analysis of genetic polymorphisms in the human genome.