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Genes don’t add much value for predictions of type 2 diabetes risk
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on November 20, 2008
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At Gene Expression, p-ter points to two studies in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine examining the predictive value of known genetic markers for type 2 diabetes. Both studies find the additional predictive power of the genetic markers beyond traditional predictors (like age, sex, family history, body-mass index, fasting glucose levels, systolic blood pressure,…