Type 1 diabetes in Africa: an immunogenetic study in the Amhara of North-West Ethiopia.
Shitaye A BalchaAbayneh G DemisseRajashree MishraTanwi VartakDiana L CousminerKenyaita M HodgeBenjamin F VoightKim LorenzStanley SchwartzSamuel T JerramArla GamperAlice HolmesHannah F WilsonAlistair J K WilliamsStruan F A GrantR David LeslieDavid I W PhillipsElisabeth R TrimblePublished in: Diabetologia (2020)
The majority of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes in rural North-West Ethiopia have the immunogenetic characteristics of autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Phenotypic differences between type 1 diabetes in rural North-West Ethiopia and the industrialised world remain unexplained.