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Susceptibility to diabetic neuropathy in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is associated with a polymorphism at the 5' end of the aldose reductase gene.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Feb 1998
Heesom A E, Millward A, Demaine A G
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OBJECTIVES: There is evidence that the polyol pathway is involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy. Aldose reductase (ALR2) is the first and rate limiting enzyme of this pathway and recent studies have suggested that polymorphisms in and around the gene are associated with the developme...
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