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Review
. 2010 Jul;59(7):1561-71.
doi: 10.2337/db10-0076.

Genetics of type 1 diabetes: what's next?

Flemming Pociot  1 , Beena Akolkar, Patrick Concannon, Henry A Erlich, Cécile Julier, Grant Morahan, Concepcion R Nierras, John A Todd, Stephen S Rich, Jørn Nerup
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Genetics of type 1 diabetes: what's next?

Flemming Pociot et al. Diabetes. 2010 Jul.
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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Contribution and frequency of risk alleles dictate mapping strategies. Linkage studies have demonstrated that multifactorial disorders, including type 1 diabetes, cannot be explained by a limited number of rare variants with large effects, and GWA studies have shown that they cannot be explained by a limited number of common variants of moderate effects. Hence, the most significant gap is currently in detecting low-frequency variants with intermediate effects. MAF, minor allele frequency. Adapted from McCarthy et al. (62).
FIG. 2.
FIG. 2.
GWA studies have significantly accelerated the pace of gene discovery in type 1 diabetes. However, most genetic associations discovered currently are weak. Color-coding designates year of discovery of these candidate genes. The y-axis indicates the best estimate of the OR for risk alleles at each of the indicated loci on the basis of currently published data (47). For each genomic region where convincing association with type 1 diabetes has been reported, the gene of interest or containing the most associated SNP is indicated on the x-axis. The majority of these genes are implicated in the immune response, but several of the non-HLA genes are expressed in human pancreatic islets (marked with *) (www.t1dbase.org) (82). (A high-quality digital representation of this figure is available in the online issue.)
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