Abstract:Purpose To investigate the effect of sex and age on the timing of a type 2 diabetes (T2D) diagnosis and the influence T2D-related genes, parental history of T2D, and obesity on T2D development. Methods In this case-control study, 1012 T2D cases and 1008 healthy subjects were selected from the Diabetes in Mexico Study database. Participants were stratified by sex and age at T2D diagnosis (early, ≤45 years; late, ≥46 years). Seventy T2D-associated SNPs were explored and the percentage contribution (R2) of T2D-re… Show more
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