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The gene mutated in thiamine-responsive anaemia with diabetes and deafness (TRMA) encodes a functional thiamine transporter.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 1999
Fleming J C, Tartaglini E, Steinkamp M P, Schorderet D F, Cohen N, Neufeld E J
Abstract excerpt
Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia with diabetes and deafness (TRMA; MIM 249270) is an autosomal recessive disease thought to be due to a defect in thiamine (vitamin B1) transport. Pharmacological doses of thiamine correct the anaemia, and in some cases improve the diabetes, although progressive sensorineural deafness is irreversible. Previous studies localized the TRMA gene to a 4-cM region on chromosome...
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