ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Childhood obesity shows increasing numbers worldwide and presents as a global health issue due to multiple metabolic comorbidities. About 1 % of adolescents with obesity develop type 2 diabetes (T2D), however little is known about the genetic and pathophysiological background in young age. Genome-wide association studies in adults revealed genes with increased diabetes risk, most of them regulating insulin secretion. The objective of this study w...

Background: Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is a rare disease with an estimated incidence (age 0–20 years) of below 5/100 000 in Germany.Objective and Hypotheses: We hypothesize that monogenic alterations might contribute to early-onset insulin secretion defects, if islet function was challenged by obesity-associated insulin resistance.Method: We follow more than 1500 children and adolescents with obesity. Patients...

Background: Mutations in more than 20 genes are described to cause monogenic diabetes. Nevertheless, numerous families with diabetes of unknown ethology and suspected genetic defect have no molecular diagnosis. This not only impedes our understanding of disease mechanisms but also prevents from predicting the clinical course of the patients and applying the pathogenesis-oriented treatment.Objective: To identify novel gene(s), causing monogenic adolescent...

Background: Pancreas aplasia (PA) and neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) syndrome is a rare disease that usually presents in the 1st months of life.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to characterize molecular genetic defects in a cohort of six NDM/PA patients with up-to-date unknown pathogenesis with optimum genetic testing.Method: As part of our ESPE-RU-project ‘Understanding the molecular basis of diabetes mellitus associated ...

Background: Studying patients with rare Mendelian diabetes has highlighted molecular mechanisms regulating β-cell pathophysiology. Previous, experimental studies have shown that Class IIa histone deacetylases (HDAC4, 5, 7, and 9) modulate mammalian pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation, function and finally glucose homeostasis.Methods: We performed exome sequencing in one adolescent boy with non-autoimmune di...

Background: Mutations in genes involved in insulin secretion or regulation of β cell identity cause both persistent neonatal diabetes (PND) and hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy (HHI) pinpointing shared pathogenic mechanisms. KCNQ1 encodes a potassium channel protein, Kv7.1, which is a voltage-gated potassium channel expressed in cardiac tissue, pancreas, inner ear neurons, and other tissues. Variants in or nearby to KCNQ1 were linked t...