According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Independent, researchers from the University of Exeter, along with their colleagues at ULB University in Belgium, have found that a newly discovered genetic disorder leads to diabetes in newborns by disrupting the cells that make insulin.
By researching DNA and stem cell changes, they discovered how mutations in a specific gene called TMEM167A probably cause insulin-producing cells to fail to function early in life.
Dr. Elisa DiFranco says about this: The discovery of DNA changes that lead to diabetes in babies provides us with a special perspective to find genes that play a key role in the production and secretion of insulin. The discovery of a specific DNA change in the research that caused a rare type of diabetes in 6 children led us to clarify the function of the little-known TMEM167A gene and showed that it plays a key role in insulin secretion.
The researchers found that mutations in TMEM167A are the cause of what is considered a rare form of neonatal diabetes.
The researchers tested six children who not only had diabetes but also other neurological disorders such as epilepsy or microcephaly. All these children had mutations in the same gene, which indicates a single genetic cause behind the metabolic symptoms associated with the body’s chemical processes as well as neurological symptoms.
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