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Apolipoprotein E genotype, islet amyloid deposition and severity of Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 May 2003
Powell D S, Maksoud H, Chargé S B P, Moffitt J H, Desai M, Da Silva Fihlo R L, Hattersley A T, Stratton I M, Matthews D R, Levy J C, Clark A
Abstract excerpt
Islet amyloid is found in 90% of patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes at post-mortem. More extensive amyloidosis is associated with decreased islet function and requirement for insulin therapy. Severity of cerebral amyloidosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increased in subjects with the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon 4 allele. To determine if ApoE genotype was associated with severity of islet...
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