Japanese Diabetic researchers took a gene of unknown function in the human body (GPR40) and put it into mice, while observing its behavior in its role to diabetes. After extensive studying of the mice's glucose and insulin behavior, they found that the protein does change the way that insulin is produced and may likely relate to diabetes. The insulin deficiencies found in the mice put the gene as one of the players in diabetes. In studying the gene, there is a possibility that this gene can help explain the reason for diabetes, and as a result can help us move towards a cure.
Article: http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/db09-1233v1
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