title: Leveraging Genetics to Advance Type 2 Diabetes Prevention.
abstract: In this Perspective, Jose Florez discusses how information from genetics and genomics may be able to contribute to prevention of type 2 diabetes and predicting individual responses to behavioral and other interventions.
authors.affiliation: Diabetes Unit and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.|Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.|Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jose C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Florez
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D012307:Risk Factors