{"id":704,"date":"2010-01-22T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:59:11","slug":"josee-dupruis-lead-investigator-in-study-identifying-genes-that-influence-insulin-and-glucose-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2010\/01\/22\/josee-dupruis-lead-investigator-in-study-identifying-genes-that-influence-insulin-and-glucose-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Josee Dupuis lead investigator in study identifying genes that influence insulin and glucose regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josee Dupuis, GSI faculty, BUSPH biostatistician and an international consortium (MAGIC) has identified new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent.\u00a0 Five of the 13 newly discovered variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes.\u00a0 The results provide important clues about the role of beta cells in the development of type 2 diabetes.\u00a0 For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/sph.bu.edu\/index.php?option=com_insidernews&amp;articleid=2558&amp;task=view&amp;id=623&amp;Itemid=366\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 Or view the publication abstract, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20081858?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&amp;ordinalpos=3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk&#8221;<\/a> online at PubMed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josee Dupuis, GSI faculty, BUSPH biostatistician and an international consortium (MAGIC) has identified new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent.\u00a0 Five of the 13 newly discovered variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}