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New amino acid substitutions in the IRS-2 gene in Finnish and Chinese subjects with late-onset type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Aug 2001
Wang H, Rissanen J, Miettinen R, Kärkkäinen P, Kekäläinen P, Kuusisto J, Mykkänen L, Karhapää P, Laakso M
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the significance of the variants of the IRS-2 gene in patients with type 2 diabetes. The entire coding part of the IRS-2 gene was screened by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis in 40 Chinese and 40 Finnish patients with late-onset type 2 diabetes. The association of the variants of the IRS-2 gene with type 2 diabetes was studied in 85 Finnish diabetic patients and 82 Finnish control...
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