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Identifying hepatic nuclear factor 1alpha mutations in children and young adults with a clinical diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes care - 1 Feb 2003
Lambert A Paul, Ellard Sian, Allen Lisa I S, Gallen Ian W, Gillespie Kathleen M, Bingley Polly J, Hattersley Andrew T
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: HNF-1alpha gene mutations (MODY3) present with marked hyperglycemia in lean young adults and may, therefore, be mistaken for type 1 diabetes, with implications for individual treatment and risk of diabetes in other family members. We examined the prevalence of HNF-1alpha mutations in families with three generations of diabetes identified in a population-based study of childhood diabetes, representing a...
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