Corroborating the toxicity of these aggregates in diabetes, the IAPP allele S20G, which raises IAPP aggregation propensity (Sakagashira et al., 2000), has been associated with premature onset diabetes and has accelerated the decline of endogenous insulin secretion when compared to non-S20G T2DM individuals (Morita et al., 2011). The gene discussed is INS; the disease is diabetes mellitus.