Open chromatin and diabetes risk.
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Summary, in English
A new study has identified a large number of open chromatin regions harboring active regulatory elements in human pancreatic islets. A type 2 diabetes-associated SNP in TCF7L2 was found to be located in a region of allele-specific open chromatin and shows allele-specific enhancer activity, suggesting a potential mechanism for this disease association.
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Pages
190-192
Publication/Series
Nature Genetics
Volume
42
Issue
3
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Topic
- Endocrinology and Diabetes
Status
Published
Research group
- Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1546-1718