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Early-onset type 2 diabetes: metabolic and genetic characterization in the mexican population.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Jan 2001
Aguilar-Salinas C A, Reyes-Rodríguez E, Ordóñez-Sánchez M L, Torres M A, Ramírez-Jiménez S, Domínguez-López A, Martínez-Francois J R, Velasco-Pérez M L, Alpizar M, García-García E, Gómez-Pérez F, Rull J, Tusié-Luna M T
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate possible defects in the insulin sensitivity and/or the acute insulin response in a group of Mexican patients displaying early-onset type 2 diabetes and to evaluate the contribution of mutations in three of the genes linked to maturity-onset diabetes of the young. We studied 40 Mexican patients with an age of diagnosis between 20 and 40 yr in which the insulin...
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