{"id":16212,"date":"2025-10-02T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=16212"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:35:28","slug":"mohlke-awarded-new-rc2-grant-from-niddk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/mohlke-awarded-new-rc2-grant-from-niddk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohlke Awarded New RC2 Grant from NIDDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11130\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 229px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/10\/Karen-Mohlke-Genetics.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Mohlke Genetics\" width=\"219\" height=\"291\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Karen Mohlke, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Karen Mohlke (Professor) received a new RC2 award from NIDDK, designed to fund ambitious, interdisciplinary, and high-risk\/high-reward projects.<\/p>\n<p>Her proposal was titled \u201cResource to interpret genetic signals and multi-tissue mechanisms for type II diabetes and related traits\u201d. \u00a0The proposed analyses and experiments will provide valuable resources to the community, including the most likely regulatory variants, elements, tissues of action, and effector genes, as well as evidence of gene effects on mitochondrial function at type II diabetes (T2D) GWAS signals. 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