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The diabetes-prone BB rat carries a frameshift mutation in Ian4, a positional candidate of Iddm1.
Diabetes - 1 Jun 2002
Hornum Lars, Rømer John, Markholst Helle
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes-prone (DP) BB rats spontaneously develop insulin-dependent diabetes resembling human type 1 diabetes. They also exhibit lifelong T-cell lymphopenia. Functional and genetic data support the hypothesis that the gene responsible for the lymphopenia, Lyp, is also a diabetes susceptibility gene, named Iddm1. We constructed a 550-kb P1-derived artificial chromosome contig of the region. Here, we present a...
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