HbA1c for type 2 diabetes diagnosis in Africans and African Americans: Personalized medicine NOW!

Andrew D. Paterson

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002384

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HbA1c for type 2 diabetes diagnosis in Africans and African Americans: Personalized medicine NOW!

Andrew D. Paterson

* E-mail: andrew.paterson@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9169-118X

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HbA1c for type 2 diabetes diagnosis in Africans and African Americans: Personalized medicine NOW!

Andrew D. Paterson

Published: September 12, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002384

About the Authors

Andrew D. Paterson

* E-mail: andrew.paterson@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9169-118X

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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