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Diabetes mellitus carrying a mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu(UUR)) gene.
Diabetologia - 1 Feb 1995
Kishimoto M, Hashiramoto M, Araki S, Ishida Y, Kazumi T, Kanda E, Kasuga M
Abstract excerpt
We screened 214 Japanese NIDDM (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients with a family history of diabetes for mutations in the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu(UUR)) gene using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism and direct sequencing. Six patients were identified as having an A to G transition at position 3243 (3243 mutation), but no patients were detected with a T to C transition at...
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