Article
N-acetylation polymorphism and diabetes mellitus among Saudi Arabians.
Journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Oct 1992
el-Yazigi A, Johansen K, Raines D A, Dossing M
Abstract excerpt
The acetylator phenotypes of 200 Saudi diabetics and an equal number of control subjects of the same origin were determined by measuring the peak height ratio of two urinary caffeine metabolites, 5-acetylamino-6-formylamino-3-methyluracil (AFMU) and 1-methylxanthine (1MX), using a simplified high-performance liquid chromatographic method. Urine samples were collected from the diabetics and the control subjects...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Adult
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Reproducibility of Results
- Saudi Arabia
