
One in Six Billion
A podcast about diabetes and genes hosted by Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd.
Podcasting since 2023 • 36 episodes
One in Six Billion
Latest Episodes
Series 3 Episode 12. Cassi Connelly. Familial Partial Lipodystrophy
Cassi Connelly talks about her experience of having familial partial lipodystrophy characterised by a loss of fat and muscular appearance of her arms and legs. She had multiple medical problems including diabetes for decades before the diagnosi...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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36:01

Series 3 Episode 11. Rebecca Goodman. Living well with Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Rebecca Goodman talks to Andrew and Maggie about what it is like to grow up with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Features of Bardet-Biedl syndrome include extra fingers and toes, progressive blindness, kidney problems, obesity due to an uncontrolled app...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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29:14

Special episode 5. John Dennis. Research breakthrough in Type 2 diabetes treatment.
We talk to John Dennis, a data science researcher working in the University of Exeter. He used data from 1 million people with Type 2 diabetes to discover how the clinical characteristics of a patient alter the glucose lowering with different t...
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Season 3
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24:01

Series 3 Episode 10. Julie Reynolds and Kash Patel. Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness
Julie Reynolds describes how she gradually lost her hearing in her 30’s and developed diabetes in her 40’s these 2 conditions also developed in in her mother, her children and other maternal relative. This led to a diagnosis of maternally inher...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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33:05

Series 3 Episode 9. Ru Kovvuri and Rhian Clissold Cognitive and medical impacts of the HNF1B deletion syndrome
Ru Kovvuri explains about her battle to get a diagnosis and support for her daughter who had multiple medical problems and learning difficulties as a result of a deletion of the HNF1B gene. Rhian Clissold discusses her research to improve the d...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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37:44
