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Canine diabetes mellitus: from phenotype to genotype.
The Journal of small animal practice - 1 Jan 2008
Catchpole B, Kennedy L J, Davison L J, Ollier W E R
Abstract excerpt
Breed differences in susceptibility to diabetes mellitus in dogs suggest an underlying genetic component to the pathogenesis of the disease. There is little evidence for an equivalent of human type 2 diabetes in dogs, and it has been proposed that canine diabetes is more comparable to the type 1 form of the disease. Certain immune response genes, particularly those encoding major histocompatibility complex...
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