Blogger shares his increased type 2 diabetes risk with the world [Genetic Future] (ScienceBlogs)

Genetic genealogist Blaine Bettinger has a fantastic post dissecting and contextualising a rather worrying result from his personal genomic analysis: a 50-60% increased lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes. Blaine is unfortunate enough to be among the 1-2% of individuals who carry two risky versions at each of three major risk variants for the disease. (It’s worth noting that type 2 diabetes risk is …