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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.
As a result, blood sugar cannot be properly controlled. Diabetics have a homozygous recessive genotype (dd). + + + + + + + + + + A father carries the recessive gene for diabetes and a mother does not (generation 1).They have two children (generation 2), a daughter and a son. The daughter does not suffer from diabetes and marries a man who does not carry the gene for diabetes. They have one child, a girl who is a carrier (generation 3).he son marries a diabetic woman and they have two boys, both who suffer from diabetes (generation 3). A father carries the recessive gene for diabetes and a mother does not (generation 1). They have two children (generation 2), a daughter and a son.