[Genetics of type II diabetes].

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Type 2 diabetes is a multifactorial disease composed of subtypes strongly associated with environmental factors at one end of the spectrum and highly genetic forms at the other hand. The former forms have been largely elucidated in the last years by the identification of the 5 genes responsible for the autosomal dominant MODY subtype: glucokinase, and 4 transcription factors which play a key role in the...

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