A long non-coding RNA that harbors a SNP associated with type 2 diabetes regulates the expression of TGM2 gene in pancreatic beta cells

This work was supported by grants from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2019-104475GA-I00 to I.S, and PGC2018-097573-A-I00 to AC-R) and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) - EFSD/JDRF/Lilly Programme on Type 1 Diabetes Research to IS. FO (MS19/00109) is recipient of the Miguel Servet scheme, and AL (FI19/00045) was supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (ES). HR-M (PRE2019-089350) is supported by predoctoral grant from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (ES) IG-M, MS-C, JM-S and AO-G were supported by Predoctoral Fellowship Grants from the UPV/EHU (Universidad del Pais Vasco/ EuskalHerrikoUnibertsitatea) and the Basque Department of Education. MC is supported by the Fonds National de la RechercheScientifique (FNRS), the Francophone Foundation for Diabetes Research (sponsored by the French Diabetes Federation, Abbott, Eli Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Novo Nordisk) and FF and MC by the EFSD/BoehringerIngelheim European Research Programme on Multi-System Challenges in Diabetes.