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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Complete Genomics Inc. announced today that it has sequenced the genomes of 600 individuals from 20 Mexican-American families from San Antonio in what is thought to be the largest whole genome sequencing family study conducted to date and the first such study of its kind in a Latino population.
"We are optimistic that this multigenerational, whole genome sequencing study will help us to identify some of the rare variants involved in type 2 diabetes that have eluded us to date," said Dr. John Blangero, a geneticist at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio and one of the researchers. "Our aim is to identify genetic variants that play a role in type 2 diabetes risk or influence variability in diabetes-related traits, such as blood glucose levels and body mass index."
The study, carried out as part of the T2D-GENES (Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next-generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples) consortium, is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whole-genome-sequencing-in-type-2-diabetes-genetic-study-2012-05-09
"We are optimistic that this multigenerational, whole genome sequencing study will help us to identify some of the rare variants involved in type 2 diabetes that have eluded us to date," said Dr. John Blangero, a geneticist at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio and one of the researchers. "Our aim is to identify genetic variants that play a role in type 2 diabetes risk or influence variability in diabetes-related traits, such as blood glucose levels and body mass index."
The study, carried out as part of the T2D-GENES (Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next-generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples) consortium, is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whole-genome-sequencing-in-type-2-diabetes-genetic-study-2012-05-09