Article
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...
Topics
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Deafness
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Humans
- Mitochondrial Diseases
- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
- Mutation
- Pregnancy
