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Maternally-inherited diabetes and deafness: report of two affected German families with the A3243G mitochondrial DNA mutation.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 1998
Thorns C, Widjaja A, Boeck N, Skamira C, Zühlke H
Abstract excerpt
In two German families four patients containing the A3243G mutant in the mitochondrial DNA suffered from maternally-inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD). DNA was isolated from oral mucosa cells. Using the polymerase chain reaction with not yet published primers, we obtained after digestion with the restriction endonuclease BSP 1201 two oligonucleotides of comparable size increasing the sensitivity of our method...
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