Type 1 diabetes is a common multifactorial disease that is strongly clustered in families: the sibling risk-to-population prevalence ratio (lambda(s)) is 15 (6%/0.4%) (1). Two loci, IDDM1 in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6p21 and IDDM2 in the insulin gene (INS) region of chromosome 11p15.5 can account for similar to 50% of the observed familial clustering (1). Locus-specific lambda(s) values (1) in 356 U.K. affected sib-pair families (2) for IDDM1 and IDDM2 are 3.0 and 1.3, respectively, or 41 and 8%, assuming a multiplicative model (J.A.T., unpublished observations). The rapid reduction in risk from first- to second- to third-degree relatives of type 1 diabetic patients (3) and whole genome scanning of a spontaneous mouse model of autoimmune type 1 diabetes (4,5) suggest that other genes may account for the rest of the familial clustering (1,4,5). In humans, two genome-wide scans, both based on the analysis of affected sib pairs, have been published so far (6,7), with the larger scan evaluating 290 markers in 96 U.K. families (data were analyzed in 93 of these families, so henceforth, this scan will be referred to as the 93 U.K. family scan) (6). The main conclusions of these studies were that the presence elsewhere in the genome of a second gene with an effect similar to IDDM1 (lambda(s) = 3) is unlikely, and that other genes with lambda(s) < 3 are involved. Subsequently, additional evidence for linkage to some of these and other regions has been reported (8-10).

Investigation of linkage of chromosome 8 to type 1 diabetes - Multipoint analysis and exclusion mapping of human chromosome 8 in 593 affected sib-pair families from the UK and US / Cucca, Francesco; Esposito, L; Goy, Jv; Merriman, Me; Wilson, Aj; Reed, Pw; Bain, Sc; Todd, Ja. - In: DIABETES. - ISSN 0012-1797. - 47:9(1998), pp. 1525-1527. [10.2337/diabetes.47.9.1525]

Investigation of linkage of chromosome 8 to type 1 diabetes - Multipoint analysis and exclusion mapping of human chromosome 8 in 593 affected sib-pair families from the UK and US

CUCCA, Francesco;
1998-01-01

Abstract

Type 1 diabetes is a common multifactorial disease that is strongly clustered in families: the sibling risk-to-population prevalence ratio (lambda(s)) is 15 (6%/0.4%) (1). Two loci, IDDM1 in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6p21 and IDDM2 in the insulin gene (INS) region of chromosome 11p15.5 can account for similar to 50% of the observed familial clustering (1). Locus-specific lambda(s) values (1) in 356 U.K. affected sib-pair families (2) for IDDM1 and IDDM2 are 3.0 and 1.3, respectively, or 41 and 8%, assuming a multiplicative model (J.A.T., unpublished observations). The rapid reduction in risk from first- to second- to third-degree relatives of type 1 diabetic patients (3) and whole genome scanning of a spontaneous mouse model of autoimmune type 1 diabetes (4,5) suggest that other genes may account for the rest of the familial clustering (1,4,5). In humans, two genome-wide scans, both based on the analysis of affected sib pairs, have been published so far (6,7), with the larger scan evaluating 290 markers in 96 U.K. families (data were analyzed in 93 of these families, so henceforth, this scan will be referred to as the 93 U.K. family scan) (6). The main conclusions of these studies were that the presence elsewhere in the genome of a second gene with an effect similar to IDDM1 (lambda(s) = 3) is unlikely, and that other genes with lambda(s) < 3 are involved. Subsequently, additional evidence for linkage to some of these and other regions has been reported (8-10).
1998
Investigation of linkage of chromosome 8 to type 1 diabetes - Multipoint analysis and exclusion mapping of human chromosome 8 in 593 affected sib-pair families from the UK and US / Cucca, Francesco; Esposito, L; Goy, Jv; Merriman, Me; Wilson, Aj; Reed, Pw; Bain, Sc; Todd, Ja. - In: DIABETES. - ISSN 0012-1797. - 47:9(1998), pp. 1525-1527. [10.2337/diabetes.47.9.1525]
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