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Variation in PPARG is associated with longitudinal change in insulin resistance in Mexican Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes.

J Clin Endocrinol Metab

March 2015

Department of Research & Evaluation (M.H.B., J.W., M.T., J.M.L., A.H.X.), Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California; Department of Preventive Medicine (N.W., R.M.W., T.A.B.), Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California; Medical Genetics Institute (K.D.T., T.H.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine (E.T.), Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California; USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute (R.M.W., T.A.B.), Los Angeles, California; Department of Physiology & Biophysics (R.M.W., T.A.B.), Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California.

Context: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) is a susceptibility locus for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although cross-sectional associations have been reported, primarily for Pro12Ala, few longitudinal studies in nondiabetic populations have been conducted.

Objective: This study aimed to examine whether and to what extent variation in PPARG is associated with longitudinal changes in anthropometric and metabolic traits in Mexican Americans at risk for T2DM.

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