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The proportion of familial cases of type 1 diabetes is increasing simultaneously with the disease incidence: Eighteen years of the Israeli Pediatric Diabetes Registry.
Pediatric diabetes - 1 Jun 2018
Zung Amnon, Na'amnih Wasef, Bluednikov Yulia, Mery Nisim, Blumenfeld Orit
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BACKGROUND: The global rise in incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is too rapid to be attributed to susceptible genetic background, pinpointing a significant role for environmental factors. Unlike the theory that the need for genetic susceptibility has lessened over time, we hypothesized that the rise in T1D incidence is faster in a genetically susceptible population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The study population...
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