British scientists from Cardiff University studied hereditary factors in the development of diabetes. It turned out that children of women with type 1 diabetes are less likely to develop this disease. The research was published in the Official Journal Web site European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
The team’s findings are based on a study of genetic data from 11,475 people with type 1 diabetes.
The results showed that children of women with type 1 diabetes were 1.8 times less likely to develop the disease than children of fathers with type 1 diabetes.
The timing of the parent’s diagnosis also mattered. Having a mother with type 1 diabetes appears to protect the child from the disease (compared to having a father with type 1 diabetes) only if the woman had the disease during pregnancy.
“Taken together, our results suggest that the relative protection associated with maternal and paternal diabetes from type 1 diabetes has a long-term effect that extends into adulthood,” the study authors wrote.
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