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Tissue-specific insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes: lessons from gene-targeted mice.
Annals of medicine - 1 Feb 2001
Nakae J, Kido Y, Accili D
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes is caused by genetic and environmental factors that affect the ability of the organism to respond to insulin. This impairment results from decreased insulin action in target tissues and insulin production in beta cells. Genetic factors play a key role in the development of type 2 diabetes. However, the inheritance of diabetes is non-Mendelian in nature because of genetic heterogeneity, polygenic...
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