Genetics of Diabetes
Across
- 2. Type of autoimmune diabetes which occurs in older adults, and is usually diagnosed after 35 years of age
- 5. Subjects with type 2 diabetes can produce insulin, but have insulin _____
- 7. This is the key defining feature of patients who have diabetes
- 10. Main susceptibility genes currently accepted for type 1 diabetes
- 13. Pancreatic hormone in charge of increasing blood glucose
- 14. Monogenic form of diabetes with specific mutations in diabetes-associated genes
- 15. Most prevalent form of diabetes worldwide
- 16. Type 1 diabetes is also known as _____ diabetes since its onset is usually at an earlier age
Down
- 1. Any of a class of organic compounds characterized by the presence of a carbonyl group in which the carbon atom is covalently bonded to an oxygen atom. The remaining two bonds are to other carbon atoms or hydrocarbon radicals (R)
- 3. Type 1 diabetes is considered to be an _______ disease
- 4. Type of pancreatic cell which produces insulin
- 6. Mitochondrial disease inherited maternally and characterized by diabetes and deafness
- 8. Type of glucose transporter present in insulin-dependent tissues
- 9. Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease caused by an interplay between genetic, epigenetic and _____ factors
- 11. Pancreatic hormone in charge of decreasing blood glucose levels
- 12. This technology has increased our ability to diagnose MODY