Article
Genetic risk factors for type 1 diabetes.
Lancet (London, England) - 4 Jun 2016
Pociot Flemming, Lernmark Åke
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes is diagnosed at the end of a prodrome of β-cell autoimmunity. The disease is most likely triggered at an early age by autoantibodies primarily directed against insulin or glutamic acid decarboxylase, or both, but rarely against islet antigen-2. After the initial appearance of one of these autoantibody biomarkers, a second, third, or fourth autoantibody against either islet antigen-2 or the ZnT8...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Autoantibodies
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diabetes Complications
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome, Human
- HLA Antigens
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Insulin-Secreting Cells
- Middle Aged
