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In recent years, the search for genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes has resulted in identification of numerous type 2 diabetes-associated loci as well as a number of loci associating with related prediabetic traits. These findings have illuminated new biological pathways contributing to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, but have also demonstrated that type 2 diabetes is an extremely heterogeneous disease with limited overlap between genetic loci associating with type 2 diabetes and loci associating with diabetes-related traits, such as body mass index, fasting glucose levels, and fasting insulin levels. Combined, these loci only account for a fraction of the observed familial clustering of type 2 diabetes and only up to about 10 % of the variation in prediabetic quantitative traits. Improved methods are needed to dig deeper into a biological understanding of the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits : Biology, Physiology and Translation
Number of pages15
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2016
Pages207-221
Chapter9
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-01573-6
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-01574-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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