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Is diabetes a genetic trait?
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Traits: With genomics continuing to advance we will be able to asses risk by looking at many genes because diabetes as many other illnesses are a combination of regulatory genes (those who turn off and on), promoter genes and accelerating genes and many others that are still being discovered. In summary not a singlle trait but a combination of many.
Answered 10/4/2016
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