Diabetes-Genetics

For a child to have diabetes inherited from a parent one of the parents must have a dominant trait for diabetes. Diabetes runs in families and is pasted down by generation to generation.

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Several mutations have been linked to diabetes. The most common one noticed is in 7% of all diabetes patients in Italy, the U.S., and France. Researchers have mentioned Link to the information: http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20110301/mutant-gene-found-in-many-with-type-2-diabetes
 * Gene mutations may identify people at a particular risk of diabetes
 * People that have the mutation may react worse or better to certain diabetes treatments.
 * People carrying the mutation gene may advance less or more rapidly to harmful complications of diabetes.
 * Drugs that make the HMGA1 ( regulates the body's responds to insulin ) gene may be to newer diabetes treatments.