Genetics Factors Contributing to Type 2 Diabetes across Ethnicities

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is among the many common diseases with a strong genetic component, but until recently, the variants causing this disease remained largely undiscovered. With the ability to interrogate most of the variation in the genome, the number of genetic variants has grown from 2 to 19 genes, many with multiple variants. An additional three genes are associated primarily with fasting glucose rather than T2DM. Despite the...