Current views on etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and gene therapy of maturity onset diabetes in the young.

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MODY, or maturity-onset diabetes of the young, is a group of monogenic diseases characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance of a non-insulin-dependent form of diabetes that classically manifests in adolescence or in young adults under 25 years of age. MODY is a rare cause of diabetes, accounting for 1% of all cases, and is often misdiagnosed as type 1 or type 2 diabetes. It is of great importance to...

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