The largest study ever to examine the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes has uncovered seven new regions of the genome linked to the disease. The study is also notable because it includes DNA from Asian and Hispanic groups.A large international consortium comprising researchers from 20 countries on four continents came together for the study and gathered data from over 48,000 patients and 139,000 healthy controls from four different ethnic groups: European, east Asian, south Asian and Mexican and Mexican American ancestry.

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