A world-wide study of diverse populations has shed new light on how genes contribute to Type 2 Diabetes and has found population-specific differences in genetic susceptibility to the disease.
The study, DIAMANTE (DIAbetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies), co-led by Andrew Morris of the University of Manchester with CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology’s (CCMB) chief scientist Giriraj R. Chandak, one of the lead investigators from here, had scientists from different parts of the world “putting together their minds to understand similarities and differences in genetic susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes in different populations”.
Global prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes, a familial disease with severe morbidity, has increased four-fold over the last three decades with India and China becoming ‘major hubs’ of this spurt in South Asia.
