ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Tuesday, September 3, 1996 TAG: 9609030172
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
Researchers have found the apparent hiding place of a gene that promotes the most common form of diabetes, one that affects 15 million Americans.
Scientists think several genes play a role in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, but they haven't identified any gene yet. The location suggested by the new study is the second to be implicated. Scientists hope the genes will reveal the biology of diabetes and lead to drugs for treatment and prevention.
Type 2 diabetes usually develops in people older than 40, who are treated with diet, exercise, oral drugs and sometimes insulin injections.
Eric Lander, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., reports the work with colleagues there and elsewhere in the September issue of the journal Nature Genetics.
- Associated Press
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