NIDDK Central Repository - Association of African genetic ancestry with fasting glucose and HbA1c levels in non-diabetic individuals: the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Prediabetes Study.

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Publication Information

DOI

10.1007/s00125-014-3301-1

PubMed ID

24942103

Public Release Type

Journal

Publication Year

2014

Affiliation

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, 9th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA, jmeigs@partners.org.

Authors

Florez JC, Grant RW, López L, Marceau L, McKinlay JB, Meigs JB, Piccolo R, Porneala B

Studies

BACH

Citation

Meigs JB, Grant RW, Piccolo R, López L, Florez JC, Porneala B, Marceau L, McKinlay JB. Association of African genetic ancestry with fasting glucose and HbA1c levels in non-diabetic individuals: the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Prediabetes Study. Diabetologia 2014 Sep;57(9):1850-8. Epub 2014 Jun 19.

Abstract

To test among diabetes-free urban community-dwelling adults the hypothesis that the proportion of African genetic ancestry is positively associated with glycaemia, after accounting for other continental ancestry proportions, BMI and socioeconomic status (SES).