Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY): a new challenge for pediatric diabetologists.

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The differential diagnosis of hyperglycemia in childhood and adolescence has to take into consideration early-onset non-insulin-dependent diabetes, defined as maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY). To date, mutations in genes of five proteins have been shown to cause MODY: glucokinase (MODY2), hepatic nuclear factor-1 alpha (HNF-1 alpha) (MODY3), hepatic nuclear factor-4 alpha (HNF-4 alpha) (MODY1), insulin...

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