Diabetes affects our bodies ability to regulate blood glucose levels because of either the inability to make or use insulin. This can result in heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and nuralogical disorders.

"1) a gene at the locus IDDM2 on chromosome 11 and 2) the gene for glucokinase (GCK), an enzyme that is key to glucose metabolism which helps modulate insulin secretion, on chromosome 7."