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?
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia. jeremy.jowett@bakeridi.edu.au
Jeremy B M
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Jowett
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