PTEN Mutations as a Cause of Constitutive Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity

Evidence suggests that protection against cancer confers a risk of type 2 diabetes and vice versa. This study shows that persons susceptible to cancer owing to a constitutive mutation in the tumor-suppressor gene PTEN also have heightened sensitivity to insulin and are obese. Epidemiologic evidence...

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Vydáno v:The New England journal of medicine Ročník 367; číslo 11; s. 1002 - 1011
Hlavní autoři: Pal, Aparna, Barber, Thomas M, Van de Bunt, Martijn, Rudge, Simon A, Zhang, Qifeng, Lachlan, Katherine L, Cooper, Nicola S, Linden, Helen, Levy, Jonathan C, Wakelam, Michael J.O, Walker, Lisa, Karpe, Fredrik, Gloyn, Anna L
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Waltham, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 13.09.2012
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ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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Shrnutí:Evidence suggests that protection against cancer confers a risk of type 2 diabetes and vice versa. This study shows that persons susceptible to cancer owing to a constitutive mutation in the tumor-suppressor gene PTEN also have heightened sensitivity to insulin and are obese. Epidemiologic evidence for a link among type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cancer has increased interest in the idea that some antidiabetes therapies may increase the risk of susceptibility to cancer, whereas others appear to offer protection. 1 Such a link is also supported by the discovery of several susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes and their unexpected proximity to genes implicated in cell-cycle regulation. 2 The discovery of common genetic variants that influence both the risk of cancer and the risk of type 2 diabetes, in opposite directions, suggests that the two conditions may result from defects in the same pathway. 3 – . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
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1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1113966