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High frequency of mutations in the HNF-1alpha gene in non-obese patients with diabetes of youth in Japanese and identification of a case of digenic inheritance.
Diabetologia - 1 Dec 2002
Tonooka N, Tomura H, Takahashi Y, Onigata K, Kikuchi N, Horikawa Y, Mori M, Takeda J
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: There is an emerging epidemic of Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus of youth in Japan and in many other developed countries. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF)-1alpha gene (TCF1) in a large group of Japanese patients with early-onset non-Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Since approximately 20% of...
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