Research Article

Genetic Associations of PPARGC1A with Type 2 Diabetes: Differences among Populations with African Origins

Table 1

Characteristics of PPARGC1A SNPs.

NCBI ref SNP number*Chromosome nucleotide positionMAFDisease risk associations-score

rs8192678238156620.291T2D, CVD, Obesity0.50
rs7656250238660160.265T2D, CVD0.27
rs4235308238644120.396CVD0.28
rs11724368994185070.106CVD0.25

Note: *National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) reference single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) number (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).
Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 37 patch release 13 (GRCh37.p13) used for nucleotide position (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/).
Minor allele frequencies are from a global population genotyped in HapMap project.
MAF: minor allele frequency; T2D: type 2 diabetes; CVD: cardiovascular disease; -Score: functionality score.