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Genetics of non-insulin-dependent (type-II) diabetes mellitus.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 1996
Kahn C R, Vicent D, Doria A
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Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the etiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes. The genetic component is heterogeneous and in some patients is probably complex, involving multiple genes. Specific genetic defects have been identified for rate monogenic forms of NIDDM: maturity-onset diabetes of the young, or MODY (which is due to glucokinase mutations in about 40% of families), syndromes of...
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