Article
A subtype of diabetes mellitus associated with a mutation in the mitochondrial gene.
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Kadowaki T, Sakura H, Otabe S, Yasuda K, Kadowaki H, Mori Y, Hagura R, Akanuma Y, Yazaki Y
Abstract excerpt
Recently, in patients with diabetes and deafness, researchers have identified an A to G transition at position 3243 in transfer ribonucleic acid(Leu)(UUR) [3243 base-pair (bp) mutation], originally found in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike epis...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Genes
- Humans
- Insulin
- Insulin Secretion
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
