- Title
- The architecture of risk for type 2 diabetes: understanding Asia in the context of global findings
- Creator
- Abdullah, Noraidatulakma; Attia, John; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Scott, Rodney J.; Holliday, Elizabeth G.
- Relation
- Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia
- Relation
- International Journal of Endocrinology Vol. 2014
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/593982
- Publisher
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is rising rapidly in both developed and developing countries. Asia is developing as the epicentre of the escalating pandemic, reflecting rapid transitions in demography, migration, diet, and lifestyle patterns. The effective management of Type 2 diabetes in Asia may be complicated by differences in prevalence, risk factor profiles, genetic risk allele frequencies, and gene-environment interactions between different Asian countries, and between Asian and other continental populations. To reduce the worldwide burden of T2D, it will be important to understand the architecture of T2D susceptibility both within and between populations. This review will provide an overview of known genetic and nongenetic risk factors for T2D, placing the results from Asian studies in the context of broader global research. Given recent evidence from large-scale genetic studies of T2D, we place special emphasis on emerging knowledge about the genetic architecture of T2D and the potential contribution of genetic effects to population differences in risk.
- Subject
- type 2 diabetes; diabetes susceptibility; genetic risk factors; nongenetic risk factors
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1052678
- Identifier
- uon:15464
- Identifier
- ISSN:1687-8337
- Language
- eng
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