RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Incidence of diabetes mellitus in parents and grandparents of diabetic children
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 217
OP 219
VO 55
IS 3
A1 Kay F. McFarland
A1 Janice G. Edwards
A1 Alva L. Strickland
A1 Richard Lampert
YR 1988
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/3/217.abstract
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.