Article
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,...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Black People
- DNA
- Diabetes, Gestational
- Exons
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genetic Variation
- Glucokinase
- Humans
- Leukocytes
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy in Diabetics