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Type 2 diabetes gene discovered by Texas team
Type 2 diabetes, which was called non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset diabetes, is responsible for 90%
of diabetes sufferers.
The actual cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery, although both genetics and environmental factors
such as obesity appear to play major roles. Recently, March 2005, a team of scientists in University of
Texas have found a gene variant that could serve as a predictor for type 2 diabetes.
The results will be published in April issue of the Journal of Diabetes.
"This important study uncovers one of the genes that appears to predispose to type 2 diabetes," said
Dr. Scott Grundy, director of UT Southwestern's Center for Human Nutrition and the study's
senior author. The study concludes that gene ENPP1 is much as 13 percent more common in people
with great risk to develop diabetes or already having type 2 of this disease. This variation might serve
as an important criteria in selecting people with high risk of type 2 diabetes, but further studies are needed
to reach a final conclusion
The above mentioned study involved three groups of people: South Asians, South Asians living in Dallas
and Caucasians living in Dallas
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