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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 polymorphism, known important prediagnostic markers of IDDM, the prevalence of adult-onset IDDM in patients with...
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