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10.13. Type 1 diabetes can present before the age of 6 months and is characterized by autoimmunity and rapid loss of beta cells

MB Johnson , KA Patel , E De Franco , W Hagopian , M Killian , TJ McDonald , TIM Tree , C Domingo-Vila , M Hudson , S Hammersley , R; EXE-T1D Consortium Dobbs , S Ellard , SE Flanagan , AT Hattersley , RA Oram

Diabetologia. 2020;63(12):2605–2615. doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05276-4.Diabetes diagnosed at <6 months of age is often of monogenic origin. However, 10-15% of affected infants do not have a pathogenic variant in one of the 26 known neonatal diabetes genes. In this study, 166 infants diagnosed at <6 months of age without such pathogenic variants showed all the the classic feat...