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Insulin gene profile cycles with season of birth of future diabetic children and their relatives.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 May 2004
Mikulecký M, Minárik P, Michalková D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: HLA class II gene pattern and IA-2A antibody positivity, revealing selected risks for prediction of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1), were previously shown to be cycling roughly in parallel with seasonally fluctuating frequencies of births of future diabetic children. Is this also true for insulin genotyping? Is this also true for births of the healthy close relatives of children with DM1? PATIENTS AND...
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