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Evaluating shared gene prioritization for type 2 diabetes and FinnGen R10 chronic periodontitis.

Archives of oral biology · Omidi S, Imani SM, Liang G · 2026-10-20

Researchers compared genetic data from type 2 diabetes and chronic periodontitis studies to identify shared genetic factors, but found no genes meeting statistical significance thresholds for both conditions, and secondary analyses did not support broader genome-wide prediction.

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