Article
Low prevalence of immunogenetic markers of IDDM in adult Koreans with diabetes detected on OGTT.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 Oct 1996
Park Y, Lee H, Koh C S, Min H, Zimmet P Z, Rowley M J, Mackay I R, Trucco M, Dorman J S
Abstract excerpt
In the Asian populations, it is not uncommon for adult patients with NIDDM to eventually lose beta-cell function and develop IDDM. Accepting that IDDM is an autoimmune disease, which occurs on a genetic background, it could by hypothesized that by measuring autoantibody prevalence and HLA DQ gene...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Animals
- Autoantibodies
- Cohort Studies
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- DNA
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Female
- Glucose Tolerance Test
- Glutamate Decarboxylase
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- Humans
- Korea
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction