Parental imprinting effect at the INS-IGF2 diabetes susceptibility locus.

doi:10.1007/BF00401845

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Parental imprinting effect at the INS-IGF2 diabetes susceptibility locus.

Diabetologia - 1 Jun 1995

Polychronakos C, Kukuvitis A, Giannoukakis N, Colle E

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Although association of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with a haplotype at a locus encompassing the genes for insulin and the insulin-like growth factor II has been well established, two major studies disagree as to whether linkage to this locus is confined to paternally inherited alleles, o...

Topics

Adult
Alleles
Child
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Female
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Markers
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genomic Imprinting
Genotype
Haplotypes
Heterozygote
Humans
Insulin
Insulin-Like Growth Factor II
Male

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