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KCNJ11: Genetic Polymorphisms and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus
2014-01-01
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major worldwide health problem and its prevalence has been rapidly increasing in the last century. It is caused by defects in insulin secretion or insulin action or both, leading to hyperglycemia. Of the various types of DM, type 2 occurs most frequently. Multiple genes and their interactions are involved in the insulin secretion pathway. Insulin secretion is mediated through the ATP-se...
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- Literature Corpus work
- efae5966-7c71-53fe-a981-1484fb10e7e4
- DOI
- 10.1155/2014/908152