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DATE: FRIDAY, February 15, 1991                   TAG: 9102150674
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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SCIENTISTS NARROW DIABETES GENE LOCATION

Researchers report they are closing in on the place of a gene they say causes a common form of diabetes, a breakthrough that could lead to early identification and treatment of people who develop the disease.

The gene is believed to cause adult-onset diabetes, also called non-insulin dependent or Type 2 diabetes. Of the estimated 14 million diabetics in the United States, 90 percent suffer from the non-insulin type, usually developing it after age 40.

The tracking of the gene was reported in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

-Associated Press 


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