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Thrifty genotypes and phenotypes in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 Jan 2000
Ong K K, Dunger D B
Abstract excerpt
Dramatically high rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have been observed in historically undernourished, recently urbanized populations. A comparable model is the high risk of DM in individuals who were growth restrained in utero and subsequently catch up in size. While it is proposed that undernutrition may somehow adversely program metabolism, both models could also be explained by genotypes that promoted...
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