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Genetics of type 2 diabetes: insight from targeted mouse mutants.
Current molecular medicine - 1 Mar 2001
Accili D, Kido Y, Nakae J, Lauro D, Park B C
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Diabetes affects millions of people worldwide, and its chronic complications are a leading cause of death in many industrialized countries. In a minority of patients, diabetes is brought about by the auto-immune destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells (Type 1 diabetes). In the vast majority of patients, diabetes is brought about by a combination of genetic and environmental factors that affect the...
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