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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Type 2 diabetes has a strong hereditary component, and while we can't change the genes we were born with, if epigenetics says a father eating a Twinkie before conception can lead to bad grades for the child in high school, why can't we modify the function of the genes through the epigenetic changes that take place in the course of life?
Perhaps we can, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. Epigenetic changes are usually described as a link between heredity and environment and come about as a result of factors like medication, diet and drugs and the researchers from Lund have now demonstrated that half of the known genetic risk variants for type 2 diabetes can be influenced by epigenetic changes that in turn influence the function of the insulin-producing cells.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/type_2_diabetes_search_epigenetic_fix-106846
Perhaps we can, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. Epigenetic changes are usually described as a link between heredity and environment and come about as a result of factors like medication, diet and drugs and the researchers from Lund have now demonstrated that half of the known genetic risk variants for type 2 diabetes can be influenced by epigenetic changes that in turn influence the function of the insulin-producing cells.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/type_2_diabetes_search_epigenetic_fix-106846