Most Of The Genetic Risk For Type 2 Diabetes Caused By Common Mistakes In The Genetic Code, Study Suggests.

reports that research published in Nature “found that...most of the genetic risk for type 2 diabetes is caused by common mistakes in the genetic code, with each mistake contributing only a small portion of an individual’s risk for developing the disease.” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said, “What this study says quite definitively for diabetes is the vast majority of hereditary risk variants are in fact these common ones, and the rare ones, while they pop up here and there, are a much smaller contribution.” HealthDay (7/11, Dallas) also covers the story. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-genes-idUSKCN0ZR1VG