Clues to finding further causes for monogenic diabetes

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In most cases of diabetes, various genes and environmental factors are involved. Not in monogenic diabetes, where the causes are mutations in just a single gene. Between 25 % and 45 % of family members or patients with monogenic diabetes do not present alterations in any of the genes that have been put forward to date as possible causes, and so new candidate genes have had to be identified. Biochemist Ms Intza Garin has made advances in this direction, in a thesis defended at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and entitled The search for new genes involved in monogenic diabetes. The research by her work team has also been reflected in publications such as The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, in December 2010.

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