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Microsatellite polymorphisms at the glucokinase locus: a population association study in Caucasian type 2 diabetic subjects.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Oct 1993
Hattersley A T, Saker P J, Cook J T, Stratton I M, Patel P, Permutt M A, Turner R C, Wainscoat J S
Abstract excerpt
Glucokinase has a central role in glucose metabolism in pancreatic beta cells and hepatocytes and is an important candidate gene for Type 2 diabetes. Mutations of the glucokinase gene have been reported in Caucasian pedigrees with maturity-onset diabetes of the young and late-onset Type 2 diabetes. In population studies of American Blacks and Mauritian Creoles an association between alleles of a glucokinase...
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