Genetic Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes and Implications for Therapy
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Diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition characterized by increased glucose level due to absence/insufficient insulin secretion (Figure 1). The old classification of diabetes divided it into juvenileand maturity-onset diabetes. Now an etiology based classification devised by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is used that divides diabetes into: type 1 diabetes (T1DM), type 2 diabetes (T2DM), monogenic diabetes, gestational diabetes,
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