Transferability and Fine Mapping of Type 2 Diabetes Loci in African Americans

Ng, Maggie C.Y.; Saxena, Richa; Li, Jiang; Palmer, Nicholette D.; Dimitrov, Latchezar; Xu, Jianzhao; Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J.; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Siscovick, David S.; Patel, Sanjay R.; Crook, Errol D.; Sims, Mario; Chen, Yii-Der I.; Bertoni, Alain G.; Li, Mingyao; Grant, Struan F.A.; Dupuis, Josée; Meigs, James B.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Pankow, James S.; Langefeld, Carl D.; Freedman, Barry I.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Wilson, James G.; Bowden, Donald W.

doi:10.2337/db12-0266

Transferability and Fine Mapping of Type 2 Diabetes Loci in African Americans

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) disproportionally affects African Americans (AfA) but, to date, genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are primarily from European and Asian populations. We examined the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and locus transferability of 40 rep…