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Muscle gene linked to type 2 diabetes – Medical Xpress

People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that in type 2 diabetes,…

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People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that in type 2 diabetes, a specific gene is of great importance for the ability of muscle stem cells to create new mature muscle cells. The findings are published in Nature Communications.
“In people with type 2 diabetes, the VPS39 gene is significantly less active in the musclecells than it is in other people, and the stem cells with less activity of the gene…

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