@article{23edd8b5989c4db4bfed938b77626075,
title = "A genome-wide association study in the Japanese population identifies susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes at UBE2E2 and C2CD4A-C2CD4B",
abstract = "We conducted a genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes (T2D) using 459,359 SNPs in a Japanese population with a three-stage study design (stage 1, 4,470 cases and 3,071 controls; stage 2, 2,886 cases and 3,087 controls; stage 3, 3,622 cases and 2,356 controls). We identified new associations in UBE2E2 on chromosome 3 and in C2CD4A-C2CD4B on chromosome 15 at genome-wide significant levels (rs7612463 in UBE2E2, combined P = 2.27 × 10⁻⁹; rs7172432 in C2CD4A-C2CD4B, combined P = 3.66 × 10⁻⁹). The association of these two loci with T2D was replicated in other east Asian populations. In the European populations, the C2CD4A-C2CD4B locus was significantly associated with T2D, and a combined analysis of all populations gave P = 8.78 × 10⁻¹⁴, whereas the UBE2E2 locus did not show association to T2D. In conclusion, we identified two new loci at UBE2E2 and C2CD4A-C2CD4B associated with susceptibility to T2D.",
keywords = "Asian Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15/genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3/genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Nuclear Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Transcription Factors/genetics, Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes/genetics",
author = "Toshimasa Yamauchi and Kazuo Hara and Shiro Maeda and Kazuki Yasuda and Atsushi Takahashi and Momoko Horikoshi and Masahiro Nakamura and Hayato Fujita and Niels Grarup and Stephane Cauchi and Ng, {Daniel P K} and Ma, {Ronald C W} and Tatsuhiko Tsunoda and Michiaki Kubo and Hirotaka Watada and Hiroshi Maegawa and Miki Okada-Iwabu and Masato Iwabu and Nobuhiro Shojima and Shin, {Hyoung Doo} and Gitte Andersen and Witte, {Daniel R} and Torben J{\o}rgensen and Torsten Lauritzen and Annelli Sandb{\ae}k and Torben Hansen and Toshihiko Ohshige and Shintaro Omori and Ikuo Saito and Kohei Kaku and Hiroshi Hirose and Wing-Yee So and Delphine Beury and Chan, {Juliana C N} and Park, {Kyong Soo} and Tai, {E Shyong} and Chikako Ito and Yasushi Tanaka and Atsunori Kashiwagi and Ryuzo Kawamori and Masato Kasuga and Philippe Froguel and Oluf Pedersen and Naoyuki Kamatani and Yusuke Nakamura and Takashi Kadowaki",
year = "2010",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1038/ng.660",
language = "English",
volume = "42",
pages = "864--8",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "10",
}