Dasman Diabetes Institute
Addressing the diabetes epidemic in Kuwait and beyond
The Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI) addresses the diabetes epidemic in Kuwait and beyond through focused diabetes, research, integrated prevention, training, education, and treatment. DDI continues to foster relationships and partnerships to increase public awareness, reduce the incidence and prevalence of diabetes and its co-morbidities, and encourage a healthy lifestyle. focuses on the application of genomics technologies for a better understanding of diabetes and its related complications. Our primary objective is to identify and characterize the genes and gene variants reported conferring risk to obesity, diabetes and related complications using high throughput genome-wide methodologies, gene expression patterns, epigenetic analysis-DNA methylation profiling and SNP genotyping
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