[1]In a major breakthrough, doctors in the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) and AIIMS have discovered a neurological link to Diabetes 2.
Diabetes 2 is the most common type of diabetes and is rampant in India with 63 million Indians currently suffering from the disease caused by being overweight and due to lack of physical activity.
These 37 scientists and doctors are led by Dr Dwaipayan Bhardwaj of IGIB and Dr Nikhil Tandon of AIIMS (a lead investigator in this project), who believe this will pave the way for new kinds of treatment for the understanding of a dis ease which has acquired epidemic proportions. “The finding could also lead to new line of targeted therauptics and open up new pathways for better understanding of the complex ailment,” Dr Tandon said.
“We have identified a new locus associated with T2D. The genes TMEM163, RAB3GAP1 and ACMSDI are involved in the neurologic processes, suggesting a neurologic component in the etiology of T2D,” said these scientists who have written about their findings in diabetes journal of the American Diabetes Association.
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