The Role of HNF4A Variants in the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Overview

Journal Curr Diab Rep

Publisher Current Science

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2005 Mar 30

PMID 15794920

Citations 16

Authors

Karen L Mohlke

Michael Boehnke

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Abstract

Genes influence susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and both positional cloning and candidate gene approaches have been used to identify these genes. Linkage analysis has generated evidence for T2DM-predisposing variants on chromosome 20q in studies of Caucasians, Asians, and Africans, and fine-mapping recently identified a likely susceptibility gene, hepatocyte nuclear factor 4-alpha (HNF4A). Rare loss-of-function mutations in HNF4A cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young and now common noncoding variants have been found to be associated with T2DM.

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