Analysis of Purified Pancreatic Islet Beta and Alpha Cell Transcriptomes Reveals 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase (Hsd11b1) as a Novel Disallowed Gene

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We and others have previously identified a group of genes, dubbed “disallowed”, whose expression is markedly lower in pancreatic islets than in other mammalian cell types. Forced mis-expression of several members of this family leads to defective insulin secretion, demonstrating the likely importance of disallowance for normal beta cell function. Up to now, transcriptomic comparisons have been based solely on...

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