Periodic Reporting for period 4 - TransGen RNA (Transgenerational regulation of glucose metabolism by noncoding RNAs )

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are multifactorial diseases caused by epistatic interaction of genetic risk alleles and an obesogenic lifestyle. The discovery of >10,000s genes that do not encode for proteins (so-called 'long noncoding RNAs, lncRNAs') extends the numbers of genes...