Protein levels of p16<sup>Ink4a</sup> and p15<sup>Ink4b</sup> were also diminished in T2DM-CAD patients while CDK4 levels, the main target of p16<sup>Ink4a</sup> and p15<sup>Ink4b</sup>, were augmented in T2DM and T2DM-CAD subjects.
We aimed at identifying a role of CDK4 IVS4-nt40G --> A variant in T2D-associated obesity (body mass index, BMI > or = 30) by association tests in an Italian T2D subjects dataset.
The aim of this study was to investigate if variations in the proximal promoter and the coding region of the CDKN1C and CDK4 genes are associated with type 2 diabetes or changes in related quantitative phenotypes among glucose-tolerant subjects.