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In a simplified presentation of their hypothesis, fetal genetics would determine glucose sensing and insulin secretion by the fetal pancreas and thereby influence insulin-mediated growth of the fetus. Defects in glucose sensing and insulin secretion would result in low birth weight, and lead to insulin resistance in adulthood.