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Susceptibility to human type 1 diabetes at IDDM2 is determined by tandem repeat variation at the insulin gene minisatellite locus.
Nature genetics - 1 Mar 1995
Bennett S T, Lucassen A M, Gough S C, Powell E E, Undlien D E, Pritchard L E, Merriman M E, Kawaguchi Y, Dronsfield M J, Pociot F
Abstract excerpt
The IDDM2 locus encoding susceptibility to type 1 diabetes was mapped previously to a 4.1-kb region spanning the insulin gene and a minisatellite or variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) locus on human chromosome 11p15.5. By 'cross-match' haplotype analysis and linkage disequilibrium mapping, we have mapped the mutation IDDM2 to within the VNTR itself. Other polymorphisms were systematically excluded as...
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