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Reduced second phase insulin secretion in carriers of a sulphonylurea receptor gene variant associating with Type II diabetes mellitus.
Diabetologia - 1 Apr 2000
Hart L M, Dekker J M, van Haeften T W, Ruige J B, Stehouwer C D, Erkelens D W, Heine R J, Maassen J A
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The sulphonylurea receptor is a subunit of the ATP-sensitive potassium channel in the pancreatic beta cell. Mutations at nt -3 of the splice acceptor site of exon 16 and a silent mutation in exon 18 of the gene for the sulphonylurea receptor (SUR1) associate with Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus in several independent populations. We investigated whether these gene variants...
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