Genetic Study on Proteinuria in Type-2 Diabetes. Genetic Study on Proteinuria in Type-2 Diabetes

A collection of patients with type-2 diabetes was collected at the Joslin Diabetes Center. Patients were categorized to a group of cases with diabetic nephropathy, and a group of controls with normoalbuminuria. From these groups, 173 cases and 177 controls were randomly selected for a genome-wide association study.