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by FollowingTheDao 1462 days ago
Your analogy fails because type one diabetes also has an causal environmental component:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571740/

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I disagree:

“ In this paper, we discuss candidate triggers of islet autoimmunity and factors thought to promote progression from autoimmunity to overt type 1 diabetes (figure 1). These factors seem to have their effect mainly in the genetically predisposed individuals.” [my emphasis]

“ Importantly, environmental factors that trigger islet autoimmunity might differ from those that promote progression from autoimmunity to overt diabetes.”