Absence of birth-weight lowering effect of ADCY5 and near CCNL, but association of impaired glucose-insulin homeostasis with ADCY5 in Asian Indians.

A feature of the Asian Indian phenotype is low birth weight with increased adult type 2 diabetes risk. Most populations show consistent associations between low birth weight and adult type 2 diabetes. Recently, two birth weight-lowering loci on chromosome 3 (near CCNL1 and ADCY5) were identified in...

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Main Authors: Senthil K Vasan, Matt J Neville, Belavendra Antonisamy, Prasanna Samuel, Caroline H Fall, Finney S Geethanjali, Nihal Thomas, Palany Raghupathy, Kerstin Brismar, Fredrik Karpe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3119677?pdf=render