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NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 657-662Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2178
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- MRC [G0500070] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0500070] Funding Source: Medline
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Human geneticists are currently in the middle of a race. Thanks to a new technology in the form of 'genome-wide chips', investigators can potentially find many novel disease genes in one large experiment. Type 2 diabetes has been hot out of the blocks with six recent publications that together provide convincing evidence for six new gene regions involved in the condition. Together with candidate approaches, these studies have identified 11 confirmed genomic regions that alter the risk of type 2 diabetes in the European population. One of these regions, the fat mass and obesity associated gene (FTO), represents by far the best example of an association between common variation and fat mass in the general population.
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