DNA data was brought together from more than 48,000 patients and 139,000 healthy controls from four different ethnic groups. The research was conducted by an international consortium of investigators from 20 countries on four continents, co-led by investigators from Oxford University's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.
Seven new genetic regions linked to type 2 diabetes
Research
10 February 2014
Seven new genetic regions associated with type 2 diabetes have been identified in the largest study to date of the genetic basis of the disease.