Genome-wide association study identifying novel variant for fasting insulin and allelic heterogeneity in known glycemic loci in Chilean adolescents: The Santiago Longitudinal Study.
Victoria L BuchananYujie WangEstela BlancoMariaelisa GraffCecilia AlbalaRaquel BurrowsJosé Luis SantosBárbara AngelBetsy LozoffVenkata Saroja VorugantiXiuqing GuoKent D TaylorYii-Der Ida ChenJie YaoJingyi TanCarolina G DownieHeather M HighlandAnne E JusticeSheila GahaganKari E NorthPublished in: Pediatric obesity (2020)
Our results exemplify the importance of including populations with diverse ancestral origin and adolescent participants in GWAS of glycemic traits to uncover novel risk loci and expand our understanding of disease aetiology.