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Glucokinase gene in gestational diabetes mellitus: population association study and molecular scanning.
Diabetologia - 1 Jan 1994
Chiu K C, Go R C, Aoki M, Riggs A C, Tanizawa Y, Acton R T, Bell D S, Goldenberg R L, Roseman J M, Permutt M A
Abstract excerpt
Mutations of the glucokinase gene result in early-onset familial Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, and several members of the mutant glucokinase kindreds were originally diagnosed as having gestational diabetes. This study examined the glucokinase gene in 270 American Black women, including 94 with gestational diabetes whose diabetes resolved after pregnancy (gestational diabetes only), 77 with...
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