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Clinical characteristics of Japanese men with glucokinase gene beta-cell promoter variant.
Diabetes care - 1 Jul 1997
Yamada K, Yuan X, Ishiyama S, Ichikawa F, Koyama K I, Koyanagi A, Koyama W, Nonaka K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between a variant at the position of -30 of beta-cell-specific promoter of the glucokinase gene and glucose tolerance in the Japanese general population and to assess the clinical characteristics of subjects with the variant. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The genotype of 657 Japanese men aged 51.0 +/- 8.8 years (mean +/- SD) was analyzed by an allele-specific assay using...
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