IFIH1 and type 1 diabetes mellitus: In summary, our results indicate a correlation between the ability to detect EV-RNA in the cellular compartment of peripheral blood and the presence of the predisposing allele (946Thr) of the common variant (rs1990760, Thr946Ala) in the type 1 diabetes risk gene IFIH1. We also show that enterovirus is detected more often in children with islet autoimmunity compared to those without.