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Science 27 February 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5662, pp. 1311 - 1312
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095486
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Perspectives

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
HNFs--Linking the Liver and Pancreatic Islets in Diabetes

Rohit N. Kulkarni and C. Ronald Kahn

Understanding the transcriptional regulatory networks that operate in different tissues may provide some mechanistic insight into certain diseases. In their Perspective, Kulkarni and Kahn discuss new work (Odom et al.) that identifies transcriptional regulatory networks in human liver cells and islet beta cells, and highlights a defect in one transcription factor in this circuitry that may contribute to late-onset type 2 diabetes.

The authors are in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: rohit.kulkarni {at}joslin.harvard.edu

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