Abstract:W e read with great interest the article by Rheinheimer and cols. (1), showing that four hundred and eighty six patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and 484 nondiabetic subjects were conducted to discuss the rs1893217 (T/C) polymorphism in protein tyrosine phosphatase, non-receptor type 2 gene (PTPN2) gene for T1D from Southern Brazil, by which the C allele was observed in 14.5% of the T1D patients and 12.2% of the non-diabetic subjects (P = 0.152). Moreover, the frequencies of this variant did not differ marke… Show more
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