Chunk #17 — ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS — A novel diabetes susceptibility variant

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Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases.

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The transmitted maternal allele has an effect in all four T2D variants in Table 1. Since prenatal maternal conditions may be a factor in conferring risk on the offspring, we examined the role of the non-transmitted maternal allele. No significant effect was observed (Supplementary Information).