Type-1 Diabetes Less About Bad Genes And More About Good Genes Behaving Badly, Stanford Research Shows

Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes may be looking in the wrong place, new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests. Early-onset diabetes, also known as type-1 diabetes, is an autoimmune disease, caused when the immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in a person’s pancreas.

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Filed under: Diabetes on November 2nd, 2008