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Question: Do you know what the approximate percentages are that a Type 1 diabetic father and a non-diabetic mother with no history of Type 1 diabetes in their families will have a child with diabetes? Say, if they had only one, that is. I am sort of curious. I had heard it was low, but I wasn't for sure. Answer: The risk of developing Type 1 diabetes is: General population 0.4% Offspring of diabetic father 6.1% Offspring of diabetic mother 2% Offspring of diabetic mother more than 25 years old at birth 1.1% Offspring of diabetic mother less than 25 years old at birth 3.6% Offspring if both diabetic parents 30% The American Diabetes Association has additional information about the genetics of diabetes. Sources: Spielman RS, Bair MP,Clerget-Darpoux F., Genetic Analysis of IDDM: summary of GAW5 IDDM results, Genet. Epidemiol. 1989;6:43-58 Thomson G, Robinson WP, Kuhner MK et al. Genetic heterogeneity, modes of inheritance adn risk estimates for a joint study of caucasians with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 1988;43:799-816 JSH Original posting 31 Oct 96

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