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Variants in the human insulin gene that affect pre-mRNA splicing: is -23HphI a functional single nucleotide polymorphism at IDDM2?
Diabetes - 1 Jan 2006
Královicová Jana, Gaunt Tom R, Rodriguez Santiago, Wood Peter J, Day Ian N M, Vorechovsky Igor
Abstract excerpt
Predisposition to type 1 diabetes and juvenile obesity is influenced by the susceptibility locus IDDM2 that includes the insulin gene (INS). Although the risk conferred by IDDM2 has been attributed to a minisatellite upstream of INS, intragenic variants have not been ruled out. We examined whether INS polymorphisms affect pre-mRNA splicing and proinsulin secretion using minigene reporter assays. We show that...
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