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A Kir6.2 mutation causing severe functional effects in vitro produces neonatal diabetes without the expected neurological complications.
Diabetologia - 1 May 2008
Tammaro P, Flanagan S E, Zadek B, Srinivasan S, Woodhead H, Hameed S, Klimes I, Hattersley A T, Ellard S, Ashcroft F M
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Heterozygous activating mutations in the pancreatic ATP-sensitive K+ channel cause permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM). This results from a decrease in the ability of ATP to close the channel, which thereby suppresses insulin secretion. PNDM mutations that cause a severe reduction in ATP inhibition may produce additional symptoms such as developmental delay and epilepsy. We identified a...
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