Inheirited diabetes genetic pattern for Type2's

I had heard about the mother-son connection. My grandmother had only girls, so that's a deadend. Both my brother and sister have elevated blood sugar as I do. So far, my son and daughter are 'normal'. No diabetes on my father's or husband's sides.
Lanie

It pretty much runs rampant on my mother's side. Both of her parents had it (although my grandmother lived into her 80's and grandfather into his 90's), both my mom and her brother have it, and I have it . I have 3 other sisters...one had it until the gastro-by-pass surgery, but my other 2 sisters don't. We seem to run to the shape theory. The 2 sisters that don't have it are pear shaped and heavier than I am. My mom, other sister and I are all the apple shape. I have decided to really examine my offspring's shapes to see which of them is going to predisposed to the disease. My husband is also the no waist, no butt shape so I'm watching him. It isn't in his family, but he had an A1c of 6.2 and a FBS of 126 one time in the last year. He just pooh-poohs me, but I figure since I'm eating low carb now and he really is supporting me in that and not lugging home sweets, that we will be able to keep it at bay. I'd like him to go in and have it checked again, but I don't think that will happen. At least he isn't overweight and exercises. Oops, I probably went on to long.

I fit the pattern you are mentioning Jeannie. My grandmother on my father's side had diabetes, my father had it beginning in his 50's, and I have been diagnosed at 55 (I'm female ). As for the inherited eating patterns, my grandmother was a Russian immigrant and she lived far from us (I was a child when she died) so I don't really know what they ate, but I would assume they ate a lot more fat and carbs than we do now. My father was a businessman, and he had a lot of business lunches, dinner parties, etc. (which certainly has never been the case for me), although he ate a lot of fruit and vegetables and healthy foods as well. Growing up, we didn't have all the fast food that's around now, and even what was available, we rarely had. We had "home cooked" meals at every meal and we almost never had pizza or hamburgers, etc. My generation (including me) has lived on a lot more fast food. I think the availability of the quick easy drive-thru is a factor for a lot of us.

I always had a tendency to have LOW blood sugar, which "flipped" this April. I think the low fat, high carb diet due to my high cholesterol may have contributed to the "flip" for me, but who knows. The fact is that I have the family history, and my kids need to watch out for that. Luckily, I've found this resource, and have learned to keep my carbs at bay, so I'm hoping to keep improving.

Bear

My grandpa on my mom's side had diabetes. He dies at the age of 56 I believe. He went into a diabetic coma in his sleep and dies without ever waking up. So far no one but his oldest daughter in her late 70's has gotten diabetes. She was diagnoised with it in her early 70's.