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Mutaz Amin1,2, Rongling Wu3,4, Claudia Gragnoli3,5,6
1French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), US14-Orphanet, 75014 Paris, France.
Abstract:
The oxytocin system is well-known for its role in social bonding and reproduction. Recently, the oxytocin system was found to play other metabolic roles such as regulation of food intake, peripheral glucose uptake, and insulin sensitivity. Variants in OXTR gene have been associated with overeating, increased cardiovascular risk, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). We tested 20 microarray-derived single nucleotide polymorphisms in the OXTR gene in 212 Italian families with rich family history for T2D and found four novel and one previously reported variant suggestively significant for linkage and association with the risk of T2D. Our study has shed some light into the genetics of susceptibility to T2D at least in Italian families.
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