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[Molecular genetics of maturity-onset diabetes of the young].
Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 1 Jan 2000
Voevoda M I, Ivanova A A, Shakhtshneider E V, Ovsyannikova A K, Mikhailova S V, Astrakova K S, Voevoda S M, Rymar O D
Abstract excerpt
To verify the type of diabetes mellitus (DM) remains an extremely important problem in endocrinology, as along with types 1 and 2 DM there are rarer hereditary types of DM, including maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY). The latter is a genetic type of DM, which is characterized by an autosomal dominant inheritance. Eleven types of MODY (MODY 1 to MODY13) are identified; each is associated with mutations...
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