T2D Risk Genes: Exome Sequencing Goes Straight to the Source.

Alonso, Laura C · Cell Metab · 2019

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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genomic variants associated with human T2D risk, but translating such findings to clinically useful information has proved challenging. A new study in Nature (Flannick et al., 2019) breaks this gridlock, using direct exome sequencing to identify functional coding variants, providing critical complementary gene-level information.

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