Article Date: 27 Apr 2007 - 5:00 PDT

Several teams of scientists this week report discovering more genes linked to Type 2 Diabetes and describe the achievement as bringing science closer to understanding the genetics of the origins and progress of this modern disease.

The various papers are published in Science and Nature Genetics this week.

The unravelling of the human genome five years ago opened the door to a cascade of research projects looking for genes that might be involved in many common diseases. These studies have acquired the name genome-wide association (GWA) projects.


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