title: T2DM: Why Epigenetics?
abstract: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder influenced by interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Epigenetics conveys specific environmental influences into phenotypic traits through a variety of mechanisms that are often installed in early life, then persist in differentiated tissues with the power to modulate the expression of many genes, although undergoing time-dependent alterations. There is still no evidence that epigenetics contributes significantly to the causes or transmission of T2DM from one generation to another, thus, to the current environment-driven epidemics, but it has become so likely, as pointed out in this paper, that one can expect an efflorescence of epigenetic knowledge about T2DM in times to come.
authors: INSERM U986, Bicêtre Hospital, University of Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
authors: Delphine
authors: D
authors: Fradin
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Bougnères