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Hereditary Aspects of Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes tends to be fairly hereditary in contrast to type 1 diabetes. Approximately 38% of siblings and one-third of children of people with type 2 diabetes will develop diabetes or abnormal glucose metabolism at some point.
The common finding that diabetes runs in the families indicates there is a strong genetic component to type 1 and type 2 diabetes. (3) Some researchers believe that inheritance of diabetes, specifically diabetes 2 is more apparent in the African Americans community, than any other race.n this report, I will exam aspects of the African American Culture, in order to determine whether those aspects have anything to do with the reasons why diabetes is higher in the African American community, more so than others.