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Human type 1 diabetes and the insulin gene: principles of mapping polygenes.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 1996
Bennett S T, Todd J A
Abstract excerpt
We review the strategy used to identify a susceptibility locus (IDDM2) for type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus. As type 1 diabetes is becoming the paradigm for dissecting multifactorial disease genetics, the approach described provides important general guidelines for positional cloning of human disease polygenes. Main topics include: (a) historical conspectus of the mapping and identification of...
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