Anomalous behaviour of the 5' insulin gene polymorphism allele 814: Lack of association with Type I diabetes in Basques

Diabetologia

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1121-1123

  Urrutia, I ^a   Calvo, B ^a   Bilbao, J R ^a   Castano L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association analysis; Basques; IDDM2; Insulin gene VNTR; Type I diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0031856152     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250051039     Document Type: Article

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