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Novel susceptibility gene for late-onset NIDDM is localized to human chromosome 12q.
Diabetes - 1 Nov 1998
Shaw J T, Lovelock P K, Kesting J B, Cardinal J, Duffy D, Wainwright B, Cameron D P
Abstract excerpt
NIDDM has a substantial genetic component, but the nature of the genetic susceptibility is largely unknown. Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a genetically heterogeneous monogenic form of NIDDM characterized by an early age of onset and autosomal dominant inheritance, and linkage studies have identified genes that are mutated in different MODY pedigrees on chromosome 20 (MODY1 locus, hepatocyte...
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