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Lewis SJ, Williams CL, Mortimer GL, Oram RA, Hagopian WA, Gillespie KM, Long AE. Islet autoantibody frequency in relatives of children with type 1 diabetes who have a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Diabet Med 2024; 41:e15394. [PMID: 38937948 DOI: 10.1111/dme.15394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
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AIM This study aimed to evaluate characteristics of autoimmunity in individuals who have a type 2 diagnosis and are relatives of children with type 1 diabetes. METHODS Pre-diagnosis samples (median 17 months before onset) from relatives who were later diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were measured for autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase 65 (GADA), islet antigen-2 (IA-2A), zinc transporter 8 (ZnT8A) and insulin (IAA) as well as the type 1 diabetes genetic risk score (GRS2). Associations between islet autoantibodies, insulin treatment and GRS2 were analysed using Fisher's exact and t-tests. RESULTS Among 226 relatives (64% men; mean age at sampling 41 years; mean age 54 years at diagnosis), 32 (14%) were islet autoantibody-positive for at least one autoantibody more than a decade before diagnosis. Approximately half of these (n = 15) were treated with insulin. GADA-positivity was higher in insulin-treated relatives than in non-insulin-treated relatives (12/18 [67%] vs. 6/18 [33%], p < 0.001). IAA-positivity was observed in 13/32 (41%) of relatives with autoantibodies. GRS2 scores were increased in autoantibody-positive relatives (p = 0.032), but there was no clear evidence for a difference according to treatment (p = 0.072). CONCLUSION This study highlights the importance of measuring islet autoantibodies, including IAA, in relatives of people with type 1 diabetes to avoid misdiagnosis.
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- Shanice J Lewis
- Translational Health Sciences, Diabetes and Metabolism, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Translational Health Sciences, Diabetes and Metabolism, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Translational Health Sciences, Diabetes and Metabolism, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Translational Health Sciences, Diabetes and Metabolism, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Translational Health Sciences, Diabetes and Metabolism, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Parkkola A, Turtinen M, Härkönen T, Ilonen J, Knip M. Family history of type 2 diabetes and characteristics of children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia 2021; 64:581-590. [PMID: 33331974 PMCID: PMC7864815 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-020-05342-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Shared aetiopathogenetic factors have been proposed in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes and both diseases have been shown to cluster in families. Characteristics related to type 2 diabetes have been described in patients with type 1 diabetes with a positive family history of type 2 diabetes. We wanted to characterise the family history of type 2 diabetes and its possible effects on the phenotype and genotype of type 1 diabetes in affected children at diagnosis. METHODS A total of 4993 children under the age of 15 years with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes from the Finnish Pediatric Diabetes Register were recruited (56.6% boys, median age of 8.2 years) for a cross-sectional, observational, population-based investigation. The family history of diabetes at diagnosis was determined by a structured questionnaire, and markers of metabolic derangement, autoantibodies and HLA class II genetics at diagnosis were analysed. RESULTS Two per cent of the children had an immediate family member and 36% had grandparents with type 2 diabetes. Fathers and grandfathers were affected by type 2 diabetes more often than mothers and grandmothers. The children with a positive family history for type 2 diabetes were older at the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (p < 0.001), had higher BMI-for-age (p = 0.01) and more often tested negative for all diabetes-related autoantibodies (p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Features associated with type 2 diabetes, such as higher body weight, older age at diagnosis and autoantibody negativity, are more frequently already present at the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children with a positive family history of type 2 diabetes.
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- Anna Parkkola
- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Immunogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Center for Child Health Research, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
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Hjort R, Löfvenborg JE, Ahlqvist E, Alfredsson L, Andersson T, Grill V, Groop L, Sørgjerd EP, Tuomi T, Åsvold BO, Carlsson S. Interaction Between Overweight and Genotypes of HLA, TCF7L2, and FTO in Relation to the Risk of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults and Type 2 Diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2019; 104:4815-4826. [PMID: 31125083 PMCID: PMC6735731 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2019-00183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We investigated potential interactions between body mass index (BMI) and genotypes of human leukocyte antigen (HLA), TCF7L2-rs7903146, and FTO-rs9939609 in relation to the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 2 diabetes. METHODS We pooled data from two population-based studies: (i) a Swedish study with incident cases of LADA [positive for glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA); n = 394) and type 2 diabetes (negative for GADA; n = 1290) and matched controls without diabetes (n = 2656) and (ii) a prospective Norwegian study that included incident cases of LADA (n = 131) and type 2 diabetes (n = 1901) and 886,120 person-years of follow-up. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, physical activity, and smoking. Interaction between overweight (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) and HLA/TCF7L2/FTO high-risk genotypes was assessed by attributable proportion due to interaction (AP). RESULTS The combination of overweight and high-risk genotypes of HLA, TCF7L2, and FTO was associated with pooled relative risk (RRpooled) of 7.59 (95% CI, 5.27 to 10.93), 2.65 (95% CI, 1.97 to 3.56), and 2.21 (95% CI, 1.60 to 3.07), respectively, for LADA, compared with normal-weight individuals with low/intermediate genetic risk. There was a significant interaction between overweight and HLA (AP, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.10 to 0.47), TCF7L2 (AP, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.09 to 0.52), and FTO (AP, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.15 to 0.61). The highest risk of LADA was seen in overweight individuals homozygous for the DR4 genotype [RR, 26.76 (95% CI, 15.42 to 46.43); AP, 0.58 (95% CI, 0.32 to 0.83) (Swedish data)]. Overweight and TCF7L2 also significantly interacted in relation to type 2 diabetes (AP, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.19 to 0.33), but no interaction was observed with high-risk genotypes of HLA or FTO. CONCLUSIONS Overweight interacts with HLA high-risk genotypes but also with genes associated with type 2 diabetes in the promotion of LADA.
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- Rebecka Hjort
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Correspondence and Reprint Requests: Rebecka Hjort, MSc, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden. E-mail:
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- Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Clinical Research Centre, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Clinical Research Centre, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Finnish Institute of Molecular Medicine, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
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- HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Finnish Institute of Molecular Medicine, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
- Division of Endocrinology, Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Research Program for Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Endocrinology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, NTNU, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Andersen MK, Hansen T. Genetic Aspects of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults: A Mini-Review. Curr Diabetes Rev 2019; 15:194-198. [PMID: 30058494 DOI: 10.2174/1573399814666180730123226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/28/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Diabetes is a multifactorial disease, caused by a complex interplay between environmental and genetic risk factors. Genetic determinants of particularly Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) have been studied extensively, whereas well-powered studies of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) are lacking. So far available studies support a clear genetic overlap between LADA and T1D, however, with smaller effect sizes of the T1D-risk variants in LADA as compared to T1D. A genetic overlap between LADA and T2D is less clear. However, recent studies, including large numbers of LADA patients, provide different lines of evidence to support a genetic overlap between T2D and LADA. The genetic predisposition to LADA is yet to be explored in a study design, like a genome- wide association study, which allows for analyses of the genetic predisposition independently of prior hypothesis about potential candidate genes. This type of study may facilitate the discovery of risk variants associated with LADA independently of T1D and T2D, and is central in order to determine if LADA should be considered as an independent diabetic subtype. Extended knowledge about the genetic predisposition to LADA may also facilitate stratification of the heterogeneous group of LADA patients, which may assist the choice of treatment. This mini-review summarizes current knowledge of the genetics of LADA, and discusses the perspectives for future studies.
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- Mette Korre Andersen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hjort R, Alfredsson L, Andersson T, Carlsson PO, Grill V, Groop L, Martinell M, Rasouli B, Storm P, Tuomi T, Carlsson S. Family history of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). DIABETES & METABOLISM 2017; 43:536-542. [PMID: 28669512 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabet.2017.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Revised: 05/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND A family history of diabetes (FHD) is a strong predictor of diabetes risk, yet has rarely been investigated in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). This study therefore investigated the risk of LADA and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in relation to FHD, taking into account the type of diabetes in relatives. METHODS Data from a population-based study were used, including incident cases of LADA [glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GADA)-positive, n=378] and T2D (GADA-negative, n=1199), and their matched controls (n=1484). First-degree relatives with disease onset at age<40 years and taking insulin treatment were classified as type 1 diabetes (T1D) or, if otherwise, as T2D. Odds ratios (ORs) were adjusted for age, gender, BMI, education and smoking. Cases were genotyped for high- and low-risk HLA genotypes. RESULTS Both FHD-T1D (OR: 5.8; 95% CI: 3.2-10.3) and FHD-T2D (OR: 1.9; 95% CI: 1.5-2.5) were associated with an increased risk of LADA, whereas the risk of T2D was associated with FHD-T2D (OR: 2.7; 95% CI: 2.2-3.3), but not FHD-T1D. In LADA patients, FHD-T1D vs FHD-T2D was associated with higher GADA but lower C-peptide levels, lower prevalence of low-risk HLA genotypes (5.0% vs 28.6%, respectively; P=0.038) and a tendency for higher prevalence of high-risk genotypes (90.0% vs 69.1%, respectively; P=0.0576). CONCLUSION The risk of LADA is substantially increased with FHD-T1D but also, albeit significantly less so, with FHD-T2D. This supports the idea of LADA as a mix of both T1D and T2D, but suggests that the genes related to T1D have greater impact. LADA patients with FHD-T1D had more T1D-like features, emphasizing the heterogeneity of LADA.
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- R Hjort
- Unit of epidemiology, institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Unit of cardiovascular epidemiology, institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Unit of epidemiology, institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for occupational and environmental medicine, Stockholm County Council, Sweden
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- Department of medical sciences, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden
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- NTNU institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, Norwegian university of science and technology, Trondheim, Norway; Department of endocrinology, Trondheim university hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of clinical sciences in Malmö, clinical research centre, Lund university, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of public health and caring sciences, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Unit of epidemiology, institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of clinical sciences in Malmö, clinical research centre, Lund university, Malmö, Sweden
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- Division of endocrinology, abdominal centre, Finnish institute for molecular medicine and research program for diabetes and obesity, university of Helsinki and Folkhälsan research centre, Helsinki university hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Unit of epidemiology, institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Diabetes is a much more heterogeneous disease than the present subdivision into types 1 and 2 assumes; type 1 and type 2 diabetes probably represent extremes on a range of diabetic disorders. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes seem to result from a collision between genes and environment. Although genetic predisposition establishes susceptibility, rapid changes in the environment (ie, lifestyle factors) are the most probable explanation for the increase in incidence of both forms of diabetes. Many patients have genetic predispositions to both forms of diabetes, resulting in hybrid forms of diabetes (eg, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults). Obesity is a strong modifier of diabetes risk, and can account for not only a large proportion of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in Asia but also the ever-increasing number of adolescents with type 2 diabetes. With improved characterisation of patients with diabetes, the range of diabetic subgroups will become even more diverse in the future.
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- Tiinamaija Tuomi
- Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Endocrinology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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