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SUBMITTER: Walter S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4879683 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walter Stefan S Marden Jessica R JR Kubzansky Laura D LD Mayeda Elizabeth R ER Crane Paul K PK Chang Shun-Chiao SC Cornelis Marilyn M Rehkopf David H DH Mukherjee Shubhabrata S Glymour M Maria MM
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 20160101 1
<h4>Background</h4>Mendelian Randomization (MR) studies have reported that type 2 diabetes (T2D) was not associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). We adopted a modified, mechanism-specific MR design to explore this surprising result.<h4>Methods</h4>Using inverse-variance weighted MR analysis, we evaluated the association between T2D and AD using data from 39 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with T2D in DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) and the ...[more]