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Analysis of a non-functional HNF-1alpha (TCF1) mutation in Japanese subjects with familial type 1 diabetes.
Human mutation - 1 Oct 2001
Yoshiuchi I, Yamagata K, Yoshimoto M, Zhu Q, Yang Q, Nammo T, Uenaka R, Kinoshita E, Hanafusa T, Miyagawa Ji, Matsuzawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor-1alpha (HNF-1alpha; gene symbol TCF1) cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 3 (MODY3), a form of diabetes mellitus characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance, early onset, and pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction. Recent genetic studies, however, also found mutations in patients diagnosed with idiopathic (non-autoimmune based) type 1...
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