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The pancreatic β cell and type 1 diabetes: innocent bystander or active participant?
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM - 1 Jul 2013
Soleimanpour Scott A, Stoffers Doris A
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic disease resulting from destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic β cells. Genetic and environmental factors contribute to T1DM onset. Use of high-throughput DNA sequencing has allowed geneticists to perform genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify novel gene loci associated with T1DM. Interestingly, >50% of these genes encode products that are expressed in...
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