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Glucokinase gene mutation screening in Argentinean clinically characterized MODY patients.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Sept 2009
Lopez A P, Foscaldi S A, Pérez M S, Krochik G, Rodríguez M, Traversa M, Puchulu F M, Hirschler V, Bergada I, Frechtel G D
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INTRODUCTION: Mutations in the glucokinase gene (GCK) produce a subtype of Maturity onset diabetes in the young (MODY), named MODY 2. To date over than 190 different mutations have been identified, distributed over the coding regions and the exon-intron boundaries of the gene. The aim of this work was to study the nature and frequency of mutations in the GCK gene, in a MODY clinically characterized Argentinean...
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