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Diabetes Gets the Genome Treatment

Feb 14, 2007

A genome-wide analysis of patients with type 2 diabetes has been completed and made publicly available. The data is a result of a collaborative study begun in 2004 at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
LundUniversity , and Novartis to determine the genetic links to type 2 diabetes. The study is part of the Diabetes Genetics Initiative (DGI), an international collaboration that aims to unlock the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes.

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