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Genetics and functional genomics of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Ayo Toye and Dominique Gauguier email

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:241doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-241

Published: 24 November 2003

Subject areas: Medicine, Genome studies, Physiology

Abstract

Genome-wide studies of transcription in the skeletal muscle of type 2 diabetic patients have identified coordinated changes in the expression of genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation, and have underlined the central role of the oxidative-phosphorylation regulator, PCG1α. These findings help unravel the complex pathogenesis and inheritance of polygenic type 2 diabetes mellitus.


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