Genetic Risk Score Identifies Hidden Type 1 Diabetes in MODY-Negative Patients

For the many patients who receive inconclusive results from genetic diabetes testing, a quiet diagnostic limbo has long followed — neither confirmed nor explained, their condition and its treatment left uncertain. Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a genetic risk score capable of identifying type 1 diabetes in roughly one in five of these unresolved cases, offering clarity where standard panels offered only silence. The tool, inexpensive and comprehensive in its analysis of known genetic risk factors, has now been woven into NHS testing protocols — a rare and meaningful pas