Genetic architecture of type 1 diabetes with low genetic risk score informed by 41 unreported loci

Hui-Qi Qu1, Jingchun Qu1, Jonathan Bradfield2

  • 1The Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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