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Mitochondrial gene variation in type 2 diabetes mellitus: detection of a novel mutation associated with maternally inherited diabetes in a Chinese family.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Feb 2000
Ma L, Wang H, Chen J, Jin W, Liu L, Ban B, Shen J, Hua Z, Chai J
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OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus and the mutation(s) in mitochondrial DNA. METHODS: According to the previous literature, the fragment of mitochondrial DNA from nucleotide 3153 to 3551, which had shown high frequency of point mutation, was scanned with the technique of polymerase chain reaction--single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) in Chinese normal control,...
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