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Contrasting diabetes phenotypes associated with hepatocyte nuclear factor-1alpha and -1beta mutations.
Diabetes care - 1 May 2004
Pearson Ewan R, Badman Michael K, Lockwood Christopher R, Clark Penelope M, Ellard Sian, Bingham Coralie, Hattersley Andrew T
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OBJECTIVE: Mutations in the highly homologous transcription factors hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF)-1alpha and -1beta cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young types 3 and 5, respectively. Diabetes due to HNF-1alpha mutations is well characterized. However, physiological assessment of the HNF-1beta phenotype is limited. We aimed to test the hypothesis that the diabetes phenotype due to HNF-1beta mutations is...
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