Article
Association of polymorphism in the interferon gamma gene with IDDM.
Diabetologia - 1 Nov 1994
Awata T, Matsumoto C, Urakami T, Hagura R, Amemiya S, Kanazawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Cytokines may play important roles in the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). We analysed a dinucleotide repeat polymorphism within the first intron of the interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) gene in Japanese diabetic patients (175 IDDM and 145 non-insulin-dependent diabetes mell...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Interferon-gamma
- Introns
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Genetic