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Identification of Cd36 (Fat) as an insulin-resistance gene causing defective fatty acid and glucose metabolism in hypertensive rats.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 1999
Aitman T J, Glazier A M, Wallace C A, Cooper L D, Norsworthy P J, Wahid F N, Al-Majali K M, Trembling P M, Mann C J, Shoulders C C, Graf D, St Lezin E, Kurtz T W, Kren V, Pravenec M, Ibrahimi A, Abumrad N A, Stanton L W, Scott J
Abstract excerpt
The human insulin-resistance syndromes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, combined hyperlipidaemia and essential hypertension, are complex disorders whose genetic basis is unknown. The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is insulin resistant and a model of these human syndromes. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for SHR defects in glucose and fatty acid metabolism, hypertriglyceridaemia and hypertension map to a single...
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