Human Genome Research Reveals Diabetes Loci

Human Genome Research Reveals Diabetes Loci: "Scientists from several research teams have used our rapidly expanding knowledge of the human genome to locate several new genes that appear to be clearly involved in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Project leaders from University of Michigan, Harvard, MIT, and deCODE Genetics Inc. were part of an enormous project in which the entire genome of about 50,000 people was studied for links between genetic factors and the incidence of diabetes. Several genes, at least three of them not previously identified, stood out as risk indicators for the disease. Several published online reports can be found in Nature Genetics and Science dated April 26, 2007. The project also included groups across the USA, and in Sweden, Finland and the UK."