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A review of maternally inherited diabetes and deafness.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Jan 2014
Li Hui-Zhen, Li Rui-Yu, Li Meng
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD), a mitochondrial disease first described in 1992, results from the mitochondrial DNA mutation and affects up to 1% of the patients with diabetes. This review discusses the biomedical mechanisms of MIDD patients; summarizes the recent improvement of clinical and genetic diagnosis of MIDD; outlines the advances of the clinical management of these patients and their...
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