title: [Analysis on genetic pattern of familial type II diabetes mellitus].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse hereditary familial type II diabetes mellitus (type II DM), including its pattern and the transmitted expression on different sex of type II DM.
  
  
  METHODS
  Familial analysis, segregation analysis, tests were used for multifactorial inheritance and threshold analysis. One hundred seventy-seven pedigrees of familial type II DM were studied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The heritability of familial type II DM was 143.06% +/- 3.3%. One dominant major gene might influence the genesis of type II DM. There were 214 nuclear families in 3 different mating types: U x U, U x A and A x A. The segregation ratios of U x U, U x A and A x A were 0.4703, 0.4838 and 0.6712 respectively. The results of tests for multifactorial inheritance and segregation analysis indicated that the genetic pattern of U x A and A x A nuclear families was not multifactorial inheritant and autosomal recessive (AR) but autosomal dominant (AD) inheritance. The genetic pattern of U x U nuclear families was neither AD nor AR inheritance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was genetic heterogeneity in type II DM discovered with subgroupes of autosomal dominant inheritance in type II DM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Chongqing University of Medical Science, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D018740:Genetic Heterogeneity; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009679:Nuclear Family