<P> However , environmental factors ( almost certainly diet and weight ) play a large part in the development of type 2 diabetes in addition to any genetic component . Genetic risk for type 2 diabetes changes as humans first began migrating around the world , implying a strong environmental component has affected the genetic - basis of type 2 diabetes . This can be seen from the adoption of the type 2 diabetes epidemiological pattern in those who have moved to a different environment as compared to the same genetic pool who have not . Immigrants to Western developed countries , for instance , may be more prone to diabetes as compared to its lower incidence in their countries of origins . Such developments can also be found in environments which have had a recent increase in social wealth , increasingly common throughout Asia . </P>
<P> However , environmental factors ( almost certainly diet and weight ) play a large part in the development of type 2 diabetes in addition to any genetic component . Genetic risk for type 2 diabetes changes as humans first began migrating around the world , implying a strong environmental component has affected the genetic - basis of type 2 diabetes . This can be seen from the adoption of the type 2 diabetes epidemiological pattern in those who have moved to a different environment as compared to the same genetic pool who have not . Immigrants to Western developed countries , for instance , may be more prone to diabetes as compared to its lower incidence in their countries of origins . Such developments can also be found in environments which have had a recent increase in social wealth , increasingly common throughout Asia . </P>
a population group that has a genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes is
a population group that has a genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes is
Immigrants to Western developed countries
Immigrants to Western developed countries