Article
[Neonatal diabetes mellitus].
Duodecim; laaketieteellinen aikakauskirja - 1 Jan 2011
Huopio Hanna, Otonkoski Timo
Abstract excerpt
Instead of type 1 diabetes, the underlying cause in diabetes with an onset before the age of six months is more likely to be monogenic. Approximately half of the permanent cases of neonatal diabetes are due to mutations in genes coding for the potassium ATP channel proteins essential to insulin secretion. Identification of the cause of a monogenic form of diabetes is important, since it will affect the mode of...
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