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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A study on the apparent diabetes resistance of a tribal community in Rajasthan has found that they have the highest occurrence of the HLA gene, which makes the body predisposed to diabetes, in India, and possibly the world.
The genetic profiling of the Raika community ? a nomadic camel rearing tribal group ? conducted by AIIMS and ICMR from 2006-2009, found the average frequency of the HLA gene to be 57.5 per cent in the community as compared to 14.5 per cent for the rest of the country.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/community-with-low-diabetes-has-more-risk-gene-study/900151/
The genetic profiling of the Raika community ? a nomadic camel rearing tribal group ? conducted by AIIMS and ICMR from 2006-2009, found the average frequency of the HLA gene to be 57.5 per cent in the community as compared to 14.5 per cent for the rest of the country.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/community-with-low-diabetes-has-more-risk-gene-study/900151/