Novel type 2 diabetes genetic study involves five major ancestry groups
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
A consortium of scientists is taking a novel approach to detect the genetic variations that predispose individuals to type 2 diabetes. The 10,000 individuals (patients and controls) whose exomes, the 18,000 protein-coding genes, are from five major ancestry groups: African-American, East Asian, European, Hispanic and South Asian.