据Nat Genet[2014,46(6):357-363.]报道,哈佛医学院遗传学Altshuler D教授研究团队最近发现一个有助防止2型糖尿病的基因突变(即该基因突变有助防止糖尿病),这为治疗糖尿病带来了新的希望。同时研究也揭示了如何使用遗传学工具,来猎取那些能起到防止疾病作用的“被破坏基因”(被关闭基因)。研究人员筛选一类人的基因组(此类人理论应该患糖尿病,但实际上没有患此疾病),通过将该基因组结果与其他人群比较, According to Nat Genet [2014, 46 (6): 357-363.], A team of researchers from Altshuler D, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, recently discovered a genetic mutation that helps prevent type 2 diabetes (ie the mutation helps prevent diabetes) , Which brings new hope for the treatment of diabetes. Research has also revealed how to use genetics tools to hunt for “damaged genes” that can play a role in disease prevention (shut down genes). Researchers to screen a group of human genome (such human theory should have diabetes, but in fact did not suffer from the disease), by comparing the results of the genome with other populations,