Susceptibility to human type 1 diabetes at IDDM2 is determined by tandem repeat variation at the insulin gene minisatellite locus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 284-292

  Bennett, S T ^a   Lucassen, A M ^b   Gough, S C L ^a   Powell, E E ^a   Undlien, D E ^c   Pritchard, L E ^a   Merriman, M E ^a   Kawaguchi, Y ^a   Dronsfield, M J ^a,d   Pociot, F ^e   Nerup, J ^e   Bouzekri, N ^f   Cambon Thomsen, A ^f   Ronningen K S ^c   Barnett, A H ^d   Bain, S C ^d   Todd, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^f CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN-DEPENDENT; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, SATELLITE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN; INSULIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028871202     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0395-284     Document Type: Article

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