Common Variants in Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young Genes Contribute to Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Finns Lori L. Bonnycastle, et al. - Prior reports have suggested that variants in the genes for maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) may confer susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, but results have been conflicting and coverage of the MODY genes has been incomplete. To complement our previous studies of HNF4A, we examined the other five known MODY genes for association with type 2 diabetes in Finnish individuals [more...]
