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The DPP Research Group gratefully acknowledges the commitment and dedication of the participants of the DPP and DPPOS. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award numbers U01 DK048489, U01 DK048339, U01 DK048377, U01 DK048349, U01 DK048381, U01 DK048468, U01 DK048434, U01 DK048485, U01 DK048375, U01 DK048514, U01 DK048437, U01 DK048413, U01 DK048411, U01 DK048406, U01 DK048380, U01 DK048397, U01 DK048412, U01 DK048404, U01 DK048387, U01 DK048407, U01 DK048443, and U01 DK048400, by providing funding during DPP and DPPOS to the clinical centers and the Coordinating Center for the design and conduct of the study, and collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data. Funding was also provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, the National Eye Institute, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Cancer Institute, the Office of Research on Women’s Health, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Diabetes Association. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The Southwestern American Indian Centers were supported directly by the NIDDK, including its Intramural Research Program, and the Indian Health Service. The General Clinical Research Center Program, National Center for Research Resources, and the Department of Veterans Affairs supported data collection at many of the clinical centers. Merck KGaA provided medication for DPPOS. DPP/DPPOS have also received donated materials, equipment, or medicines for concomitant conditions from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Parke-Davis, and LifeScan Inc., Health O Meter, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Merck-Medco Managed Care, Inc., Merck and Co., Nike Sports Marketing, Slim Fast Foods Co., and Quaker Oats Co. McKesson BioServices Corp., Matthews Media Group, Inc., and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation provided support services under subcontract with the Coordinating Center. Funding was also provided by the Swedish Research Council and the European Commission (CoG-2015_681742_NASCENT and H2020-MSCAQ: 19 IF-2015-703787). GWAS genotyping in the DPP was supported in part by a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (to PWF). The work of PWF was supported in part by the grant from the European Research Council.
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Taylor J. Maxwell
Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Center, Lund, Sweden
Paul W. Franks
VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Steven E. Kahn
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, AZ, USA
William C. Knowler
Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases & Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kieren J. Mather
Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Jose C. Florez
Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jose C. Florez
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Jose C. Florez
The Biostatistics Center, The Milken Institute of Public Health, The George Washington University, Rockville, MD, USA
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Maxwell, T.J., Franks, P.W., Kahn, S.E. et al. Quantitative trait loci, G×E and G×G for glycemic traits: response to metformin and placebo in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). J Hum Genet 67, 465–473 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s10038-022-01027-y
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