Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis … - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
To further understanding of the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility, we
aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

N Genet - Nat Genet, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To further understanding of the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility, we
aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

Type 2 diabetes: genetic data sharing to advance complex disease research

J Flannick, JC Florez - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
As with other complex diseases, unbiased association studies followed by physiological and
experimental characterization have for years formed a paradigm for identifying genes or …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

E Zeggini, LJ Scott, R Saxena, BF Voight, JL Marchini… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified multiple loci at which common
variants modestly but reproducibly influence risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D),,,,,,,,,,. Established …

[PDF][PDF] Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci

R Saxena, CC Elbers, Y Guo, I Peter, TR Gaunt… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
To identify genetic factors contributing to type 2 diabetes (T2D), we performed large-scale
meta-analyses by using a custom∼ 50,000 SNP genotyping array (the ITMAT-Broad-CARe …

An expanded genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Europeans

RA Scott, LJ Scott, R Mägi, L Marullo, KJ Gaulton… - Diabetes, 2017 - Am Diabetes Assoc
To characterize type 2 diabetes (T2D)-associated variation across the allele frequency
spectrum, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 26,676 T2D …

Genome-wide association studies and type 2 diabetes

E Wheeler, I Barroso - Briefings in functional genomics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, the search for genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes (T2D) has changed
dramatically. Although linkage and small-scale candidate gene studies were highly …

Genome-wide association studies in type 2 diabetes

MI McCarthy, E Zeggini - Current diabetes reports, 2009 - Springer
Despite numerous candidate gene and linkage studies, the field of type 2 diabetes (T2D)
genetics had until recently succeeded in identifying few genuine disease-susceptibility loci …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

MCY Ng, D Shriner, BH Chen, J Li, WM Chen… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However,
little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of …