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Phenotypic and pathomorphological characteristics of a novel mutant mouse model for maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 2 (MODY 2).
American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Mar 2010
van Bürck L, Blutke A, Kautz S, Rathkolb B, Klaften M, Wagner S, Kemter E, Hrabé de Angelis M, Wolf E, Aigner B, Wanke R, Herbach N
Abstract excerpt
Several mutant mouse models for human diseases such as diabetes mellitus have been generated in the large-scale Munich ENU (N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea) mouse mutagenesis project. The aim of this study was to identify the causal mutation of one of these strains and to characterize the resulting diabetic phenotype. Mutants exhibit a T to G transversion mutation at nt 629 in the glucokinase (Gck) gene, leading to an...
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