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Locus on chromosome 18 cosegregates with diabetes in the BB/OK rat subline.
Diabete & metabolisme - 1 Dec 1995
Klöting I, Vogt L, Serikawa T
Abstract excerpt
The spontaneously diabetic BB rat is a well-established animal model of human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Besides the lymphopenia gene (Iddm 1) and the MHC class-II genes of the RT1u haplotype (Iddm 2), at least one other non-MHC gene (Iddm 3) is considered essential for diabetes development. To investigate the participation of this third gene in the development of diabetes in our BB/OK rat subline, we...
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