Submitted on December 4, 2006
Accepted on March 21, 2007

Examining the candidacy of ghrelin as a gene responsible for variation in adult stature in a UK population with type 2 diabetes

Department of Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Genome Centre, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8900-Institute of Biology, Pasteur Institute, 59000 Lille, France; Centre of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; Institute of Clinical and Biomedical Research, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK; Departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; Imperial College Genome Centre and Genomic Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) Churchill Hospital, Old Road Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK

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