quote:A year later, Kaufman's car fortuitously broke down while he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Salk Institute in San Diego, Calif. Forced to wait, he went to the library and stumbled on a report in a medical journal showing a connection between autoimmunity to an unknown protein in insulin-producing cells and diabetes. Kaufman surmised that this unknown protein was in fact GAD, the protein he had studied in Tobin's lab.
Porter, does your family actually a genetic predisposition, or are you referring to the lifestyle related risks? I argue with my sister about this a lot, since she is sees most things as genetic problems.
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