Genetics and genomics studies in type 2 diabetes: A brief review of the current scenario in the Arab region

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a polygenic and multi-factorial complex disease, the challenge to find genetic markers that could explain the risk of development of this disease still remains unresolved. The Arab region is one among the populations with a high prevalence of T2D and a large number of studie...

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Published in:Diabetes & metabolic syndrome clinical research & reviews 2019-03, Vol.13 (2), p.1629-1632
Main Authors: Musambil, Mohthash, Siddiqui, Khalid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arab world
Arabs - genetics
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - epidemiology
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - genetics
Egypt - epidemiology
Genetic Markers
Genetics
Genomics
Genomics - methods
Humans
Iraq - epidemiology
Jordan - epidemiology
Personalized medicine
Polymorphism, Genetic
Prevalence
Risk Factors
Saudi Arabia - epidemiology
Type 2 diabetes
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Summary:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a polygenic and multi-factorial complex disease, the challenge to find genetic markers that could explain the risk of development of this disease still remains unresolved. The Arab region is one among the populations with a high prevalence of T2D and a large number of studies have been carried out in exploring the genetic factors associated with T2D risk. To summarize the recent developments in the Arab world based on the recent studies that had looked into genetic factors associated with the development of T2D in the Arab populations. A systematic literature search was conducted to identify studies published between 2015 and 2018 reporting genetic factors or polymorphisms associated with the risk of T2D in the Arab world. The online databases PubMed and Web of Science were used to perform the literature search. The present study has evaluated 14 studies published during the year 2015–2018. Studies from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates had been explored studying the associations of GIPR, ADIPOQ, FTO, (GRCh38.p12), MLXIP, AKNAD1, KCNJ11 CDKAL1, CDKN2A/2B, TCF7L2, ACE, SNAP25, ELMO1, VDR, KCTD8, GABRA4 and PRKD1 genes with T2D development.
ISSN:1871-4021
1878-0334
DOI:10.1016/j.dsx.2019.03.017