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Monogenic forms of insulin resistance: apertures that expose the common metabolic syndrome.
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM - 1 Oct 2003
Hegele Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Insulin resistance is common and plays a central role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Precedents in biomedical research indicate that evaluation of monogenic syndromes can help to understand a common complex phenotype. Monogenic forms of insulin resistance, such as familial partial lipodystrophy, which results from mutations in either LMNA (encoding lamin A/C) or PPARG (encoding peroxisome...
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