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    Genome-wide association studies in the Japanese population identify seven novel loci for type 2 diabetes
    (Nature Publishing Group, 2016) Imamura, M.; Takahashi, A.; Yamauchi, T.; Hara, K.; Yasuda, K.; Grarup, N.; Zhao, W.; Wang, X.; Huerta-Chagoya, A.; Hu, C.; Moon, S.; Long, J.; Kwak, S.H.; Rasheed, A.; Saxena, R.; Ma, R.C.W.; Okada, Y.; Iwata, M.; Hosoe, J.; Shojima, N.; Iwasaki, M.; Fujita, H.; Suzuki, K.; Danesh, J.; J?rgensen, T.; J?rgensen, M.E.; Witte, D.R.; Brandslund, I.; Christensen, C.; Hansen, T.; Mercader, J.M.; Flannick, J.; Moreno-Mac?as, H.; Burtt, N.P.; Zhang, R.; Kim, Y.J.; Zheng, W.; Singh, J.R.; Tam, C.H.T.; H
    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 80 susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D), but most of its heritability still remains to be elucidated. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of GWAS for T2D in the Japanese population. Combined data from discovery and subsequent validation analyses (23,399 T2D cases and 31,722 controls) identify 7 new loci with genome-wide significance (P<5 ? 10-8), rs1116357 near CCDC85A, rs147538848 in FAM60A, rs1575972 near DMRTA1, rs9309245 near ASB3, rs67156297 near ATP8B2, rs7107784 near MIR4686 and rs67839313 near INAFM2. Of these, the association of 4 loci with T2D is replicated in multi-ethnic populations other than Japanese (up to 65,936 T2Ds and 158,030 controls, P<0.007). These results indicate that expansion of single ethnic GWAS is still useful to identify novel susceptibility loci to complex traits not only for ethnicity-specific loci but also for common loci across different ethnicities. ? 2016, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved.