20-year study finds ethnic differences in links between diabetes risk and levels of tyrosine and other amino acids

13 Feb 2015


A study of white European and South Asian men in the UK has found that levels of the amino acid tyrosine, and several other amino acids, are more strongly associated with increased diabetes risk in the South Asian men.

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