Endocrine Abstracts

Defining the molecular genetics of diabetes gives new insight into the underlying aetiology. Recent work in Type 2 diabetes has suggested that the majority of genes to date result in beta-cell dysfunction but the impact of each polymorphism is relatively modest. In contrast patients with beta-cell monogenic diabetes have beta-cell dysfunction as the result of mutation of a single gene and these allow new insights into subtypes of beta-cell dysfunction and their therapeutic res...

Andrew Hattersley, Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK AbstractAndrew Hattersley qualified from Oxford in 1984. He trained in Diabetes at the Hammersmith Hospital, Oxford and Birmingham before taking up his present post as a consultant Diabetologist in Exeter in 1995.His principal area of research is the molecular genetics of diabetes with a particular emphasis on monogenic diabetes. He has ta...