Article
Minireview: pharmacogenetics and beyond: the interaction of therapeutic response, beta-cell physiology, and genetics in diabetes.
Endocrinology - 1 Jun 2006
Hattersley Andrew T, Pearson Ewan R
Abstract excerpt
Defining the molecular genetics of diabetes gives new insight into the underlying etiology and so should help improve treatment. The genetic etiology is now known for most patients with beta-cell monogenic diabetes, allowing genetic classification. We review how this genetic knowledge alters treatment. Patients with a glucose-sensing beta-cell defect due to glucokinase mutations have regulated, mild, fasting...
Topics
- Animals
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha
- Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta
- Humans
- Islets of Langerhans
- Mutation
- Pharmacogenetics
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying
