Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The role of uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) on the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its chronic complications. 21779625 2011
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We found no consistent associations between the UCP2 -866G-allele and obesity or type 2 diabetes. 22349573 2013
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease CTD_human Previous studies of the role of the UCP2 promoter -866G/A single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in T2D have given opposite results. 15562023 2005
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Moreover, the UCP2 rs659366 polymorphism showed no significant difference between DM and control (P = 0.66; OR [95%CI]  = 1.10 (0.91-1.32)). 25396419 2014
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE UCP2 polymorphisms are associated with leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in Type 2 Diabetes, which also induces considerable background oxidative stress. 27615599 2016
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent studies have shown that UCP2 has an important part in the pathogenesis of type-2 diabetes. 15738989 2005
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Therefore, we studied the association of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) with the presence of T2D, as well as the effect on the patients' LTL of plasma oxidative stress and of variation in UCP2, a gene involved in the mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species. 19889414 2010
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The A allele of the -866G>A variant of UCP2 was associated with reduced risk of CAD in men with type 2 diabetes in a 6-year prospective study. 18192542 2008
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conclude that obesity-induced, UCP2-mediated loss of glucose sensing in glucose-excited neurons might have a pathogenic role in the development of type 2 diabetes. 17728716 2007
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We conclude that 1) skeletal muscle mRNA levels encoding UCP2 and UCP3 are correlated among individuals and may be coordinately regulated; 2) UCP3 expression is not regulated by differential effects on UCP3L and UCP3S forms of the mRNA; and 3) UCP mRNA expression tends to increase in muscle as a function of obesity but not of resting metabolic rate or insulin resistance, and is increased in patients with type 2 diabetes. 9836527 1998
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In UCP2 (G-866A) polymorphism, the distribution of GA (46%) and AA (14%) genotypes were significantly higher in T2D patients than the healthy controls. 30910560 2019
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease RGD Supplementation of alpha-tocopherol improves cardiovascular risk factors via the insulin signalling pathway and reduction of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in type II diabetic rats. 18344121 2008
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We identified a haplotype set (rs591758-rs668514- rs647126-rs1800006, spanning the UCP2-UCP3 intergenic and UCP3 regions) as significantly associated with greater type 2 diabetes risk (nominal P = 0.0011, permutation P = 0.046) in Caucasian women, especially among overweight Caucasians (BMI >25 kg/m(2)) (nominal P = 0.0006, permutation P = 0.032). 18223008 2008
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To clarify the contribution of the UCP2 gene -866 G/A polymorphism in the Iranian population, we studied its association with obesity and T2D. 20804304 2010
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) gene polymorphisms have been reported as genetic risk factors for obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 22533685 2012
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interaction between the UCP2-866G/A, mtDNA 10398G/A and PGC1alpha p.Thr394Thr and p.Gly482Ser polymorphisms in type 2 diabetes susceptibility in North Indian population. 17701054 2007
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, a common polymorphism in the promoter region of the UCP2 gene modulates triglycerides and cholesterol levels in French Caucasian subjects with type 2 diabetes. 15308133 2004
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE the genotype (P = 0.00006) and the allele (P = 0.00007) frequencies of Ala55Val of the UCP2 gene showed a significant protective effect against the development of type 2 diabetes. 21175267 2011
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Screening for variants of the uncoupling protein 2 gene in Japanese patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 10337857 1999
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Lastly, no association was found between UCP2 and Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes using either a family based design (85 families) or case control study (normal glucose tolerance n = 335, impaired glucose tolerance n = 42, Type II diabetes n = 76). 10382588 1999
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE This study suggests that the UCP2 gene may be involved in the pathogenesis of NPDR and PDR in Han Chinese patients with T2D. 30359091 2018
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Uncoupling protein 2 promoter polymorphism -866G/A affects peripheral nerve dysfunction in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients. 16567833 2006
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results indicate that the Ala55 --> Val and Ala232 --> Thr variants of UCP2 do not play an important role in the pathogenesis of NIDDM or obesity in the Japanese population. 9709950 1998
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Patients with combinations of the rSNPs UCP2 -5331G>A and UCP3 -2078C>T displayed an increased risk for T2DM. 18755175 2008
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Variants within UCP2 (rs622064; CC vs. A allele carriers OR=1.61; 95% CI: 1.21-2.15, P<0.002) and within TERF2IP (rs8053257; A allele carriers vs. GG, OR=1.78; 95% CI: 1.07-3.18, P<0.03) were associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 26765095 2016