INS and type 2 diabetes mellitus: LADA patients also share genetic characteristics of both T1D and T2D and the rate of beta-cell loss and thereby time to exogenous insulin dependence correlates to the levels of GADA 65 (Niskanen et al., 1995; Fourlanos et al., 2005; Brophy et al., 2008; Cervin et al., 2008).