Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I am doing a research paper on the topic - To what extent does genetics play a vital role in one being diagnosed with diabetes?
I have found some material focusing on HLA, Beta - Cells, T- cells, obesity, glucose intolerance, but I am still unclear on my answer to the topic question. If any of you guys have any information please do help me.

Here is a paper from the World Health Organization with some godd references to help you leanr more.

http://www.who.int/genomics/about/Diabetis-fin.pdf

Cheers,
Colin

Thanks Colin for your help the article was really helpful.
I tweaked my topic so it can be narrower now I am just looking at how the mutation of the HLA region causes or results in diabetes.

Great, glad it helped!