Six more genes tied to diabetes
March 31, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI
Oxford, Harvard, and National Human Genome Research Institute researchers and their colleagues have identified six new unexpected genetic variants involved in type 2 diabetes, boosting to 16 the total number of genetic factors associated with increased risk of the disease.
The new variant most strongly associated with type 2 diabetes was also recently implicated in prostate cancer.
Type 2 diabetes affects more than 200 million people worldwide, including nearly 21 million in the US.