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Diabetes mellitus in two genetically distinct populations in Jordan

A comparison between Arabs and Circassians/Chechens living with diabetes

Laith N. Al-Eitan, Ahmad M. Nassar, Rana B. Dajani, Basima A. Almomani and Nesreen A. Saadeh
Saudi Medical Journal February 2017, 38 (2) 163-169; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.17910
Laith N. Al-Eitan
From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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Ahmad M. Nassar
From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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Rana B. Dajani
From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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Basima A. Almomani
From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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Nesreen A. Saadeh
From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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vol. 38 no. 2 163-169
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.17910
PubMed 
28133689

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 29, 2016
  • Accepted November 16, 2016
  • Published online February 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Laith N. Al-Eitan, MSc, PhD⇑,
  2. Ahmad M. Nassar, MD,
  3. Rana B. Dajani, MSc, PhD,
  4. Basima A. Almomani, MSc, PhD and
  5. Nesreen A. Saadeh, MD
  1. From the Departments of Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Al-Eitan), Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almomani), Department of Internal Medicine (Saadeh), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Hematopoietic and Stem Cell Transplantation Center (Nassar), Istishari Hospital, Amman, and the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Dajani), The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Laith Al-Eitan, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Email: lneitan{at}just.edu.jo ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0064-0190.
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