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Maternally Inherited Diabetes and Deafness (MIDD) - a Series of Case Reports
2022-07-21
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Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) is a rare form of diabetes, caused by a mutation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which impairs mitochondrial function by decreasing the efficiency of the Leucine Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) in adding amino acids to developing proteins. MIDD has a prevalence of 0.5–3% among diabetic population but almost always misdiagnosed and managed as either Type 1 or Type...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5b6add3b-5971-5c8a-ac0c-1ef603eb6d58
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1881306/v1
