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The etiopathological relationship between latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and classical type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes remains unclear. Variation at the insulin gene variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) minisatellite influences susceptibility to type 1 diabetes, but studies in LADA have been small and inconsistent. We examined the role of insulin gene variation (using flanking variants as surrogates for VNTR subtypes) in the largest case-control study of LADA to date (400 case and 332 control subjects). Highly significant associations were identified with disease, with dominant protective effects of the T allele at -23HphI (odds ratio [OR] 0.42 [95% CI 0.31-0.58], P = 2.4 × 10-8), A allele at +1,404Fnu4HI (0.50 [0.36-0.70], P = 3.2 × 10-5), and C allele at +3,580MspI (0.55 [0.35-0.85], P = 0.0046). As with type 1 diabetes, the -23HphI variant (a surrogate for the subdivision of VNTR into class I and III alleles) most clearly defined susceptibility in LADA. However, there was no association with age at diagnosis or requirement for insulin therapy 6 years postdiagnosis. This study establishes that variation within the insulin gene region does influence susceptibility to LADA, with the direction and magnitude of effect indistinguishable from that previously reported for type 1 diabetes. In conclusion, differences in VNTR-encoded susceptibility do not explain the differences in clinical presentation that distinguish classical type 1 diabetes and LADA. © 2006 by the American Diabetes Association.
Author(s): Desai M, Zeggini E, Horton VA, Owen KR, Hattersley AT, Levy JC, Hitman GA, Walker M, Holman RR, McCarthy MI, Clark A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Diabetes
Year: 2006
Volume: 55
Issue: 6
Pages: 1890-1894
ISSN (print): 0012-1797
ISSN (electronic): 1939-327X
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db06-0089
DOI: 10.2337/db06-0089
PubMed id: 16731859
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