Gonçalo Abecasis and colleagues report associations with fasting plasma glucose levels in a collection of ten genome–wide association scans from the MAGIC consortium. They find variants in the gene encoding melatonin receptor 1B that are associated with fasting glucose levels and, in a meta-analysis of 13 case-control studies, also show association with increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Inga Prokopenko
- Claudia Langenberg
- Gonçalo R Abecasis
