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Mitochondrial diabetes and its lessons for common Type 2 diabetes.
Biochemical Society transactions - 1 Nov 2006
Maassen J A, 't Hart L M, Janssen G M C, Reiling E, Romijn J A, Lemkes H H
Abstract excerpt
Multiple pathogenic pathways are able to deregulate glucose homoeostasis leading to diabetes. The 3243A>G mutation in the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA)-encoded tRNALeu,UUR gene was found by us to be associated with a particular diabetic subtype, designated MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness). This mutation causes an imbalance in the mitochondrion between proteins encoded by the nuclear and mitochondrial...
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