PMID- 21518407 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110818 LR - 20221207 IS - 1399-5448 (Electronic) IS - 1399-543X (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 3 Pt 1 DP - 2011 May TI - Persistently autoantibody negative (PAN) type 1 diabetes mellitus in children. PG - 142-9 LID - 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00681.x [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Autoantibody-negative children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes might have unrecognized monogenic or type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: At diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (between ages 0.5 and 16.3 yr, n = 470), autoantibodies [glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), insulinoma-associated protein 2 (IA2), insulin autoantibodies (IAA), and/or islet cell antibody (ICA)] were positive (ab+) in 330 and negative in 37 (unknown in 103). Autoantibody-negative patients were retested at median diabetes duration of 3.2 yr (range 0.9-16.2) for autoantibodies (GAD, IA2, ZnT8), human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing, non-fasting C-peptide, and sequencing of HNF4A, HNF1A, KCNJ11, and INS. RESULTS: Nineteen (5% of 367) remained persistently autoantibody negative (PAN), 17 were positive on repeat testing (PORT), and 1 refused retesting. No mutations were found in PORT. One PAN was heterozygous for P112L mutation in HNF1A and transferred from insulin to oral gliclazide. Another PAN transferred to metformin and the diagnosis was revised to type 2 diabetes. The remaining 17 PAN were indistinguishable from the ab+ group by clinical characteristics. HLA genotype was at high risk for type 1 diabetes in 82% of remaining PAN and 100% of PORT. After excluding patients with diabetes duration <1 yr, C-peptide was detectable more frequently in the remaining PAN (7/16) and PORT (6/17) than in a random selection of ab+ (3/28, p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: The diagnosis of type 1 diabetes should be reevaluated in PAN patients, because a subset has monogenic or type 2 diabetes. The remaining PAN have relatively preserved C-peptide compared with ab+, suggesting slower beta-cell destruction, but a very high frequency of diabetogenic HLA, implying that type 1B (idiopathic) diabetes is rare. CI - (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S. FAU - Hameed, Shihab AU - Hameed S AD - Endocrinology, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia. shihab.hameed@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au FAU - Ellard, Sian AU - Ellard S FAU - Woodhead, Helen J AU - Woodhead HJ FAU - Neville, Kristen A AU - Neville KA FAU - Walker, Jan L AU - Walker JL FAU - Craig, Maria E AU - Craig ME FAU - Armstrong, Taylor AU - Armstrong T FAU - Yu, Liping AU - Yu L FAU - Eisenbarth, George S AU - Eisenbarth GS FAU - Hattersley, Andrew T AU - Hattersley AT FAU - Verge, Charles F AU - Verge CF LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20100906 PL - Denmark TA - Pediatr Diabetes JT - Pediatric diabetes JID - 100939345 RN - 0 (Autoantibodies) RN - 0 (C-Peptide) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (HNF1A protein, human) RN - 0 (Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha) SB - IM CIN - Pediatr Diabetes. 2011 May;12(3 Pt 1):139-41. PMID: 21518406 MH - Adolescent MH - Australia/epidemiology MH - Autoantibodies/blood/*immunology MH - C-Peptide/blood MH - Child MH - Child, Preschool MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/epidemiology/*genetics/*immunology MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology/*genetics/*immunology MH - HLA Antigens/genetics/immunology MH - Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha/genetics/immunology MH - Histocompatibility Testing MH - Humans MH - Infant MH - Seroepidemiologic Studies MH - White People/statistics & numerical data MH - Young Adult EDAT- 2011/04/27 06:00 MHDA- 2011/08/19 06:00 CRDT- 2011/04/27 06:00 PHST- 2011/04/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/04/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/08/19 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00681.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pediatr Diabetes. 2011 May;12(3 Pt 1):142-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00681.x. Epub 2010 Sep 6.