GATTACA--are we there yet?
In the past few years, new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus have been identified in large-scale studies of genetic associations. But can their inclusion in clinically based risk models improve disease prediction?
Jowett
Jeremy B M
JB
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia. jeremy.jowett@bakeridi.edu.au
D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012307:Risk Factors