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Islet amyloid polypeptide gene: no evidence of abnormal promoter region in thirty-five type 2 diabetic patients.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 Jan 1994
Tokuyama Y, Kanatsuka A, Suzuki Y, Yamaguchi T, Taira M, Makino H, Yoshida S
Abstract excerpt
Aberrant expression of the IAPP gene may be involved in the pathogenesis and islet amyloid formation of type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus. We sequenced 536 basepairs in the 5'-upstream sequence of the gene of 35 Japanese with this disease and 3 patients with maturity-onset diabetes in the young. The sequences corresponding to both alleles of the gene were identical to one another and to the...
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