PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kay F. McFarland
AU  - Janice G. Edwards
AU  - Alva L. Strickland
AU  - Richard Lampert
TI  - Incidence of diabetes mellitus in parents and grandparents of diabetic children
DP  - 1988 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 217--219
VI  - 55
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/3/217.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/3/217.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1988 May 01; 55
AB  - The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in fathers and paternal grandparents was compared with that in mothers and maternal grandparents of 123 diabetic and 103 nondiabetic children. Although there was no difference in the prevalence of diabetes in mothers and maternal grandparents of diabetic children (12 relatives) compared with those of nondiabetic children (eight relatives), there was a higher incidence of diabetes in the fathers and paternal grandparents of diabetic children (19 relatives) than in those of nondiabetic children (five relatives). These data suggest that the factors that influence development of diabetes are more likely transmitted through the father’s family than through the mother’s.