Type 2 diabetes associated variants of KCNQ1 strongly confer the risk of cardiovascular disease among the Saudi Arabian population

Abstract Genome-wide association studies have identified several loci associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Polymorphisms within the KCNQ1 (potassium voltage-gated channel, KQT-like subfamily, member 1) gene are consistently associated with T2D...

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Main Authors: Maha S. Al-Shammari, Rhaya Al-Ali, Nader Al-Balawi, Mansour S. Al-Enazi, Ali A. Al-Muraikhi, Fadi N. Busaleh, Ali S. Al-Sahwan, Abdulmohsen Al-Elq, Awatif N. Al-Nafaie, Jesu Francis Borgio, Sayed AbdulAzeez, Amein Al-Ali, Sadananda Acharya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2017-08-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
T2D
CVD
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572017000400586&lng=en&tlng=en