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Mitochondrial diabetes mellitus--glucose-induced signaling defects and beta-cell loss.
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Oka Y, Katagiri H, Ishihara H, Asano T, Kikuchi M, Kobayashi T
Abstract excerpt
Japanese diabetic patients whose mothers were also diabetic were screened, using peripheral leukocytes, for an A to G transition at nucleotide pair 3243 of the mitochondrial gene, a tRNA(Leu)(UUR) mutation. This mutation was identified in four pedigrees from among 300 unrelated patients. Diabetes mellitus cosegretated with the mutation, except in 1 young subject, and was maternally inherited. Long-term follow-up...
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