One of Six Genes Associated with Type-2 Diabetes Linked to Prostate Cancer

The links between diabetes and Prostate cancer has been strengthened by the discovery by researchers of six genes that are associated with prostate cancer. One gene called JAZF1, in particular of the 16 now associated with diabetes has been shown to have a definitive cause of prostate cancer which is broadening their view of possible genetic cures for the disease. A variant of the diabetes causing gene, JAZF1 is undergoing further studies to show the relationship with diabetes for they occur at different parts of the gene.

“The remarkable recent progress in identifying regions of the genome that increase risk to diabetes—from 3 to 16 in only a year—will help us unravel the complex basis diabetes and may suggest new and better tailored methods to prevent or treat this disease.,” said U-M’s Michael Boehnke, the lead scientist on the Finland-United States Investigation of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Genetics (FUSION) study group, one of the three lead groups in the study.”

These are just some of the new medical marvels that are being revealed by studying the human genome and the roles genes and other particles within our DNA and the role’s they play that results in the disease.