London: In what could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, researchers have identified a urinary marker that can lead to easy detection of diabetes.
"We were able to identify a urinary marker that can easily detect the presence of a case of diabetes," said co-researcher Johan Auwerx from The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
For the study, the researchers carried out a study of the genome and the 'phenome' (the set of all phenotypes or clinical features) of a family of mice composed by 183 members.
A particular gene, located on the mouse's chromosome 2 plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes, showed the findings.
"The mice with a high-fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not," said co-first author Evan Williams from EPFL.
London: In what could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, researchers have identified a urinary marker that can lead to easy detection of diabetes.
"We were able to identify a urinary marker that can easily detect the presence of a case of diabetes," said co-researcher Johan Auwerx from The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
For the study, the researchers carried out a study of the genome and the 'phenome' (the set of all phenotypes or clinical features) of a family of mice composed by 183 members.
A particular gene, located on the mouse's chromosome 2 plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes, showed the findings.
"The mice with a high-fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not," said co-first author Evan Williams from EPFL.
For this step, the researchers relied on a University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland that involved 1,000 individuals from the region.
In diabetic patients, the rate of 2-aminoadipase was lower than in the rest, the findings showed.
The study appeared in the journal Cell Metabolism.
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