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Genome-wide search unearths surprising clues for diabetes and blood triglycerides
Image courtesy of Nadav Kupiec, Ó³»­´«Ã½

Scientists from the Ó³»­´«Ã½ of Harvard and MIT, Lund University and Novartis today announced the discovery of three unsuspected regions of human DNA that contain clear genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and another that is associated with elevated blood triglycerides.