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Hereditary Aspects of Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes tends to be fairly hereditary in contrast to type 1 diabetes. Approximately 38% of siblings and one-third of children of people with type 2 diabetes will develop diabetes or abnormal glucose metabolism at some point.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its pancreatic beta cells. The onset of type 1 diabetes is attributed to both an inherited risk and external triggers, such as diet or an infection. The hunt for these genetic and enviromental risk factors is on-going.About 18 regions of the genome have been linked with influencing type 1 diabetes risk.he inheritance of particular HLA alleles can account for over half of the genetic risk of developing type 1 diabetes (1). The genes encoding class II MHC proteins are most strongly linked with diabetes, and these genes are called HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, and HLA-DP.