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re: DQB1*0301
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Phil is right, type two diabetes is different. Obesity is the biggest culprit of type II diabetes. Type I is a different story. Even saying that, nothing garantees us 100% protection. This genetic marker DQB1*0301, may pre-dispose me to melanoma, as my father died of melanoma, but it doesn't necessarily mean that I will get it too, although I have had three pre-melanomas removed. If you think of this marker as predisopsing us to the other diseases too, we're in a heap of trouble, that's a pretty long list.