Article
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness: prevalence in a hospital diabetic population.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Jun 1997
Newkirk J E, Taylor R W, Howell N, Bindoff L A, Chinnery P F, Alberti K G, Turnbull D M, Walker M
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) is a new sub-type of diabetes and results from an A to G substitution at position 3243 of the mitochondrial tRNA(leu(UUR)) gene. This mutation is also associated with a neurological syndrome (MELAS). Recent studies have screened carefully selected...
Topics
- Adult
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Deafness
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Europe
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mothers
- Pedigree
- Point Mutation
- Prevalence
- RNA
- RNA, Mitochondrial
- RNA, Transfer, Leu
- Surveys and Questionnaires
