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Association of the glycogen synthase locus on 19q13 with NIDDM in Pima Indians.
Diabetologia - 1 Mar 1996
Majer M, Mott D M, Mochizuki H, Rowles J C, Pedersen O, Knowler W C, Bogardus C, Prochazka M
Abstract excerpt
Skeletal muscle glycogen synthase (encoded by GYS1 on chromosome 19q13.3) is the rate-limiting enzyme in insulin-mediated non-oxidative glucose disposal. Our previous studies have demonstrated an impairment of insulin-stimulated GYS1 activities in insulin-resistant Pima Indians, and associations of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) with the GYS1 locus were reported recently in Finnish and Japanese...
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