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A mouse model that develops type 1 diabetes spontaneously and used thereof are described. In some embodiments, the mouse model expresses a combination of HLA-DQ8 and GAD65 in a C57BL/6-BTBR congenic background, where the GAD65 is expressed under the rat insulin promoter.