Diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness (DIDMOAD) caused by mutations in a novel gene (wolframin) coding for a predicted transmembrane protein

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2021-2028

  Strom, Tim M ^a   Hörtnagel, Konstanze ^a   Hofmann, Sabine ^a,c   Gekeler, Florian ^a   Scharfe, Curt ^a   Rabl, Wolfgang ^d   Gerbitz, Klaus D ^b,c   Meitinger, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute für Klinische Chemie   (Germany)

^c Diabetesforschung   (Germany)

^d Kinderklinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 0031761895     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.13.2021     Document Type: Article

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