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Prevalence and clinical characteristics of mitochondrial tRNAleu(UUR) nt 3243 A-->G and nt 3316 G-->A mutations in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 Dec 2001
Ji L, Hou X, Han X
Abstract excerpt
Seven hundred and sixteen randomly selected, unrelated patients with type 2 diabetes were screened for mutations using a PCR-RFLP technique to assess the prevalence of the A-G mutation at position 3243 of the mitochondrial (mt) tRNAleu(UUR) gene in type 2 diabetes in the Chinese population. Three individuals with this mutation were identified, representing approximately 0.4% of the type 2 diabetes patients...
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