Erschienen in:
01.02.2008 | Commentary
Mendelian randomisation studies of type 2 diabetes: future prospects
verfasst von:
M. S. Sandhu, S. L. Debenham, I. Barroso, R. J. F. Loos
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 2/2008
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Excerpt
The integration of principles and procedures underlying population genetics and epidemiology provides a potential research framework to make causal inferences about the association between a risk factor and disease [
1,
2]. In an epidemiological context, numerous biomarkers have been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes. In this issue of
Diabetologia, Herder and colleagues assess the prospective association between circulating levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor and risk of type 2 diabetes [
3]. Their results provide suggestive statistical evidence for a sex-specific association between this biomarker and risk of type 2 diabetes. This observation is consistent with the current paradigm that inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes [
4]. …