Does it increase my chance or would that be too distant for it to make any difference?
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Yes, there’s definitely a genetic component to both T1 and T2 diabetes.
There’s not much you can do to prevent T1, but there’s a blood test you can take to see if you have the markers for T1 and celiac.
For T2, just take care of yourself the best you can. You may not have the gene for either, though.
Yes, there’s definitely a genetic component to both T1 and T2 diabetes.
There’s not much you can do to prevent T1, but there’s a blood test you can take to see if you have the markers for T1 and celiac.
For T2, just take care of yourself the best you can. You may not have the gene for either, though.
When we’re talking about something influenced by lots of genes (and not simple dominant/recessive), a good rule of thumb is that risk correlates with how closely related you are:
* Parents and brothers/sisters are 1st degree relatives.
* Grandparents/grandchildren, uncles/aunts, half-siblings, nieces/nephews are 2nd degree.
* Great-grandparents, great-grandchildren, first cousins, and great-uncles/great-aunts are 3rd degree.
So, your grandmother’s sister (great-aunt) is a 3rd-degree relative. That’s just close enough to influence risk on strongly genetic problems, but usually not enough to worry about, especially when no one else in the family has something. For instance, schizophrenia probably has a stronger genetic link than either common type of diabetes, and having an identical twin who suffers from it puts your risk at 50%, but having a great-aunt would increase your lifetime risk from the baseline 1% all the way to… 2%.
Type II diabetes is more strongly genetic than type I, but still has a strong environmental component, and even people with a strong genetic loading who get plenty of exercise and eat healthy can do a lot to rein in that risk.
When we’re talking about something influenced by lots of genes (and not simple dominant/recessive), a good rule of thumb is that risk correlates with how closely related you are:
* Parents and brothers/sisters are 1st degree relatives.
* Grandparents/grandchildren, uncles/aunts, half-siblings, nieces/nephews are 2nd degree.
* Great-grandparents, great-grandchildren, first cousins, and great-uncles/great-aunts are 3rd degree.
So, your grandmother’s sister (great-aunt) is a 3rd-degree relative. That’s just close enough to influence risk on strongly genetic problems, but usually not enough to worry about, especially when no one else in the family has something. For instance, schizophrenia probably has a stronger genetic link than either common type of diabetes, and having an identical twin who suffers from it puts your risk at 50%, but having a great-aunt would increase your lifetime risk from the baseline 1% all the way to… 2%.
Type II diabetes is more strongly genetic than type I, but still has a strong environmental component, and even people with a strong genetic loading who get plenty of exercise and eat healthy can do a lot to rein in that risk.
When we’re talking about something influenced by lots of genes (and not simple dominant/recessive), a good rule of thumb is that risk correlates with how closely related you are:
* Parents and brothers/sisters are 1st degree relatives.
* Grandparents/grandchildren, uncles/aunts, half-siblings, nieces/nephews are 2nd degree.
* Great-grandparents, great-grandchildren, first cousins, and great-uncles/great-aunts are 3rd degree.
So, your grandmother’s sister (great-aunt) is a 3rd-degree relative. That’s just close enough to influence risk on strongly genetic problems, but usually not enough to worry about, especially when no one else in the family has something. For instance, schizophrenia probably has a stronger genetic link than either common type of diabetes, and having an identical twin who suffers from it puts your risk at 50%, but having a great-aunt would increase your lifetime risk from the baseline 1% all the way to… 2%.
Type II diabetes is more strongly genetic than type I, but still has a strong environmental component, and even people with a strong genetic loading who get plenty of exercise and eat healthy can do a lot to rein in that risk.
When we’re talking about something influenced by lots of genes (and not simple dominant/recessive), a good rule of thumb is that risk correlates with how closely related you are:
* Parents and brothers/sisters are 1st degree relatives.
* Grandparents/grandchildren, uncles/aunts, half-siblings, nieces/nephews are 2nd degree.
* Great-grandparents, great-grandchildren, first cousins, and great-uncles/great-aunts are 3rd degree.
So, your grandmother’s sister (great-aunt) is a 3rd-degree relative. That’s just close enough to influence risk on strongly genetic problems, but usually not enough to worry about, especially when no one else in the family has something. For instance, schizophrenia probably has a stronger genetic link than either common type of diabetes, and having an identical twin who suffers from it puts your risk at 50%, but having a great-aunt would increase your lifetime risk from the baseline 1% all the way to… 2%.
Type II diabetes is more strongly genetic than type I, but still has a strong environmental component, and even people with a strong genetic loading who get plenty of exercise and eat healthy can do a lot to rein in that risk.
Yes. My grandma have t2. My mom and all her siblings have t2. I have t2 . Diagnosed when i was 25. Not even overweight.
Yes. My grandma have t2. My mom and all her siblings have t2. I have t2 . Diagnosed when i was 25. Not even overweight.
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