H Yoshie, T Kobayashi, H Tai, JC Galicia - Periodontology 2000, 2007 - pt.wkhealth.com A detailed knowledge of the dynamic between the host immune responses and oral
bacteria is essential to understand clearly the pathogenesis of periodontal
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- ►pubget.com [PDF] CL Avery, BI Freedman, AT Kraja, IB Borecki, … - Diabetologia, 2006 - Springer Abstract Aims/hypothesis While there are sex-related differences in both the
prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and disease risk factors, there is only
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- ►endojournals.org SM Clee, AD Attie - Endocrine reviews, 2007 - Endocrine Soc Inbred mouse strains provide genetic diversity comparable to that of the human
population. Like humans, mice have a wide range of diabetes-related phenotypes.
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the increase in the incidence of obesity, which is an important risk factor for
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KE North, N Franceschini, IB Borecki, CC Gu, … - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of sex effects on the underlying
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and Quebec governments but mainly by the Medical Research Council and the
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N Franceschini, L Almasy, JW MacCluer, HHH … - BMC Medical Genetics, 2008 - biomedcentral.com Body fat mass distribution and deposition are determined by multiple
environmental and genetic factors. Obesity is associated with insulin
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M Falchi, SG Wilson, D Paximadas, R … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—Genome-wide variance component linkage analysis using 2,231 genetic
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N Franceschini, KE North, D Arnett, JS … - nature.com The CHEK2 gene was identified as a candidate gene under a linkage peak for type
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