Jill Clendening

Information officer, VUMC

Clendening writes news and feature stories for Vanderbilt publications and websites, including the VUMC Reporter and Vanderbilt Medicine. 

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Study links gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to type 2 diabetes

Teams from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Michigan design a comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches that has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to type 2 diabetes.