Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.

Question: Do obese first-degree relatives of patients with type 2 diabetes with elevated triglyceride levels exhibit increased -cell function?
Answer: We characterized FDR-T2DM subjects from central Mexico with NGT and revealed a class of obese subjects with elevated TGs and -cell function, which may precede PT2DM.
yes