The First Genome-Wide Association Study for Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The Progress in Diabetes Genetics in Youth (ProDiGY) Consortium

Source : https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2021/01/21/db20-0443.abstract

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in youth has increased substantially, yet the genetic underpinnings remain largely unexplored. To identify genetic variants predisposing to youth-onset type 2 diabetes, we formed ProDiGY, a multi-ethnic collaboration of three studies (TODAY, SEARCH, and T2D-GENES) with 3,006 youth type 2 diabetes cases (mean age 15.1±2.9 y) and 6,061 diabetes-free adult controls (mean age 54.2±12.4 y).