Calpain-10 identified as susceptibility gene for type-2 diabetes.

Reports research revealing the genetic susceptibility of the adult population to diabetes. Identification of the cysteine protease, calpain-10, a gene associated with type-2 diabetes; Details of the use of positional cloning by Yukio Horikawa et al at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago in Illinois; Implications for the identification of calpain-10 as a pathway in glucose metabolism.