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Is type 1 diabetes hereditary?
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Dr Partha Kar
Although type 1 diabetes is not an inherited disease, there is some genetic factor. A first-degree relative (sister, brother, son, daughter) of someone with type 1 diabetes has about a 1 in 16 chance of developing type 1 diabetes.
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