Ethnic differences in association of high body mass index with early onset of Type 1 diabetes – Arab ethnicity as case study

• Arshad M. Channanath,

  Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

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• Naser Elkum,

  Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

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• Dalia Al-Abdulrazzaq,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Jaakko Tuomilehto,

  Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

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• Azza Shaltout,

  Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

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• Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj

  * E-mail: Alphonse.Thangavel@dasmaninstitute.org

  Affiliation Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4574-5343

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