Type 1 Diabetes Risk Linked to Intestinal Viruses (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Type 1 Diabetes Risk Linked to Intestinal Viruses

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Herbert 'Skip' Virgin IV, MD, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, talks with postdoctoral researcher Dale Balce, PhD. Virgin led a study linking intestinal viruses to the development of Type 1 diabetes. The study showed that children who carried a specific virus belonging to the Circoviridae family were less likely to head down the path toward diabetes than those who carried members of a different group of viruses.

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Robert Boston

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