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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Twenty years after launching a groundbreaking study, the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes continues to make significant progress towards finding the cause of Type 1 diabetes.
The DAISY Study- Diabetes Auto Immunity Study in the Young- started in July 1993. The latest round began in July of 2013 and some of the original participants are still enrolled. The goal of the study is to see how genes and the environment interact to trigger the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
Mylynda Herrick was enrolled in the DAISY study when she was six years old, after her brother was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Mylynda was told she also had genetic markers that were common in diabetics.
Through her childhood, teenage years and into adulthood, Mylynda continued to participate in studies conducted annually by researchers.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/02/20/groundbreaking-diabetes-study-tracks-genetic-markers-20-years/
The DAISY Study- Diabetes Auto Immunity Study in the Young- started in July 1993. The latest round began in July of 2013 and some of the original participants are still enrolled. The goal of the study is to see how genes and the environment interact to trigger the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
Mylynda Herrick was enrolled in the DAISY study when she was six years old, after her brother was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Mylynda was told she also had genetic markers that were common in diabetics.
Through her childhood, teenage years and into adulthood, Mylynda continued to participate in studies conducted annually by researchers.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/02/20/groundbreaking-diabetes-study-tracks-genetic-markers-20-years/