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Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-1alpha gene in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY3)
Nature - 5 Dec 1996
Yamagata K, Oda N, Kaisaki P J, Menzel S, Furuta H, Vaxillaire M, Southam L, Cox R D, Lathrop G M, Boriraj V V, Chen X, Cox N J, Oda Y, Yano H, Le Beau M M, Yamada S, Nishigori H, Takeda J, Fajans S S, Hattersley A T, Iwasaki N, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Polonsky K S, Bell G I
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The disease non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is characterized by abnormally high blood glucose resulting from a relative deficiency of insulin. It affects about 2% of the world's population and treatment of diabetes and its complications are an increasing health-care burden. Genetic factors are important in the aetiology of NIDDM, and linkage studies are starting to localize some of the...
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