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High prevalence of a missense mutation of the glucokinase gene in gestational diabetic patients due to a founder-effect in a local population.
Diabetologia - 1 Nov 1996
Saker P J, Hattersley A T, Barrow B, Hammersley M S, McLellan J A, Lo Y M, Olds R J, Gillmer M D, Holman R R, Turner R C
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A high proportion of the female patients who are members of maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) pedigrees, and whose diabetes mellitus is due to a glucokinase mutation, originally presented with gestational diabetes. To establish whether glucokinase mutations could be a common cause of gestational diabetes, we studied 50 subjects who presented with gestational diabetes and on follow-up had hyperglycaemia...
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