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British researchers have found two genetic variants that affect a baby's size at birth and say one of them is also linked with developing diabetes in later life.
Scientists link low birth weight and diabetes
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The finding, published in the journal Nature Genetics, is the first firm evidence of a genetic link between low birth weight and diabetes and helps explain why small babies have higher rates of diabetes when they grow up.
Professor Mark McCarthy, who leads the diabetes research group at the University of Oxford, says severe malnutrition and low birth weight has a big impact on infant survival.
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