Impact of genetic and non-genetic factors in type 1 diabetes.

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Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes is due to destruction of the insulin secreting cells of the islets of Langerhans. The disease is caused by non-genetic, probably environmental, factors operating in a genetically susceptible host to initiate a destructive immune process. These unknown environmental factors may operate over a limited period either in early or later and to a variable degree, playing a particularly...

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