Type 2 & other diabetes

Single-cell profiling of pancreatic islets maps subtype-associated molecular alterations in type 2 diabetes

DiabetologiaPublished Mechanistic study

Authors' conclusion

Our study provides an exploratory single-cell map of subtype-associated transcriptomic patterns in pancreatic islets across clinically defined type 2 diabetes subgroups.

Study context

Population
Pancreatic islet donors with T2D (43) and healthy controls; scRNA-seq of 131,083 cells from 32 donors43 T2D donors
Comparison
T2D subtypes vs healthy controls
Outcome
Subtype-associated islet molecular alterations
Methodological detailssingle-cell RNA sequencing, external centroid validation
  • Single-cell RNA sequencing
  • External centroid validation

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Subtype mapping sensitivity, full dataset

85.0% to 100.0%

Subtype mapping sensitivity, scRNA-seq sub-cohort

91.7% to 100.0%

Original publication

Single-cell profiling of pancreatic islets maps subtype-associated molecular alterations in type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. Published 1 September 2026. doi:10.1007/s00125-026-06842-y

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