Glucokinase mutations, insulin secretion, and diabetes mellitus.

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The glycolytic enzyme glucokinase plays a key role in glucose sensing by the insulin-secreting pancreatic beta-cells, and mutations in the gene encoding this enzyme are a common cause of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), a form of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus characterized by autosomal-dominant inheritance and onset before 25 years of age. Twenty-eight different mutations in this gene have...

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