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A common mitochondrial DNA variant is associated with insulin resistance in adult life.
Diabetologia - 1 Jan 1998
Poulton J, Brown M S, Cooper A, Marchington D R, Phillips D I
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited. Mitochondrial DNA mutations could contribute to the excess of maternal over paternal inheritance of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). We therefore investigated the relationship between this variant, insulin resistance and other risk factors in a cohort which had been well characterised with respect to diabetes. Blood DNA was screened from 251 men born in...
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