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Increased insulin resistance in obese children who have both 972 IRS-1 and 1057 IRS-2 polymorphisms.
Diabetes - 1 Dec 2002
Le Fur Sophie, Le Stunff Catherine, Bougnères Pierre
Abstract excerpt
In two cohorts of 174 and 165 obese Caucasian children, we measured insulin sensitivity and genotyped insulin receptor substrate IRS-1 and IRS-2 genes for the Arg972Gly and the Asp1057Gly variants, respectively. Because IRS-1 and IRS-2 have complementary roles in insulin signaling, we classified the genotypes in three categories: those with none of the variants in IRS-1 or IRS-2, those with one variant in IRS-1...
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