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Diabetes in the post-GWAS era

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Large sample sizes, high-resolution arrays and comprehensive imputation are pushing genetic fine-mapping of complex trait loci to its limits without, in most cases, pinpointing a unique variant-gene combination. Superimposing these results on sophisticated maps of functional chromatin elements promises to break this logjam, as a new study of type 2 diabetes compellingly demonstrates.

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Figure 1: Proposed mechanism for the contribution of variation in MTNR1B to type 2 diabetes risk.

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  1. Child Health and Human Development Program and Department of Pediatrics, Constantin Polychronakos and Maha Alriyami are at The Endocrine Genetics Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,

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