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Utilizing the KCNJ11 Gene Mutations in Spotting Egyptian Patients With Permanent Neonatal Diabetes Who Can Benefit From Treatment Shift.
Laboratory medicine - 1 Aug 2017
Ahmed Dina M, Abdel Dayem Soha M, Abdel Kader Mona, Khalifa Rania H, El-Lebedy Dalia H, Kamel Solaf A, Shawky Shereen M
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BACKGROUND: Neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) is a monogenic form of diabetes mellitus. Until now, patients in developing countries who had this condition had been misdiagnosed as having type 1 diabetes mellitus and accordingly directed to erroneous, ineffective, and costly therapeutic regimens. OBJECTIVE: To detect Egyptian patients who harbor pathological variant in the KCNJ11 gene, so that their treatment...
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