Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20886378›Full record

ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2010

Physiologic characterization of type 2 diabetes-related loci.

Niels Grarup, Thomas Sparsø, Torben Hansen

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Niels GrarupDiabetes Genetics, Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark.
Thomas Sparsø
Torben Hansen
Steno Diabetes Center · DKDorn Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For the past two decades, genetics has been widely explored as a tool for unraveling the pathogenesis of diabetes. Many risk alleles for type 2 diabetes and hyperglycemia have been detected in recent years through massive genome-wide association studies and evidence exists that most of these variants influence pancreatic β-cell function. However, risk alleles in five loci seem to have a primary impact on insulin sensitivity. Investigations of more detailed physiologic phenotypes, such as the insulin response to intravenous glucose or the incretion hormones, are now emerging and give indications of more specific pathologic mechanisms for diabetes-related risk variants. Such studies have shed light on the function of some loci but also underlined the complex nature of disease mechanism. In the future, sequencing-based discovery of low-frequency variants with higher impact on intermediate diabetes-related traits is a likely scenario and identification of new pathways involved in type 2 diabetes predisposition will offer opportunities for the development of novel therapeutic and preventative approaches.

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AnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansInsulin ResistanceInsulin-Secreting Cells

Identifiers

PMID20886378
PMCPMC2955912
OpenAlexW2132686752

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