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Still do not know the exact cause of type 1 diabetes, but international researchers have found a link between the disorder of blood glucose and a network of genes of the immune system.

Through an association study of the entire genome, the researchers found that a certain group of genes that reacts in response to viral infection was present in both rats and humans, and that these same genes were also associated with susceptibility to diabetes type 1.

“The diseases arising as a result of many genetic and environmental factors through networks of genes that cause tissue damage,” said Dr. Stuart Cook, author of the study, group director of molecular and cellular cardiology Science Center Clinics Medical Research Council and professor of clinical cardiology and molecular Imperial College London.

“We use a method to identify the central command of major control points of a network of genes of inflammation. This led us to discover hundreds of new genes that may cause diabetes, and a major control gene that controls the entire network” said Cook.
He added that one gene belongs to a class of genes that might be a good target for drug therapy in the future. Read the rest of this entry »