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[Permanent neonatal diabetes and recessive mutation in the INS gene: a familial history].
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Feb 2013
Di Benedetto M, Richard O, Pélissier P, Darteyre S, Cavé H, Stéphan J-L
Abstract excerpt
Permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus is a rare disorder usually presenting within the first few weeks or months of life and defined by chronic hyperglycemia due to severe nonautoimmune insulin deficiency. Nonsyndromic neonatal diabetes is genetically heterogeneous and several genes have been linked to this disorder. Here, we report on a new homozygous recessive mutation in the INS gene in 2 siblings born to...
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