A novel mutation of WFS1 gene in a Japanese man of Wolfram syndrome with positive diabetes-related antibodies

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-217

  Nakamura, Akinobu ^a   Shimizu, Chikara ^a   Nagai, So ^a   Taniguchi, Satoshi ^a   Umetsu, Masaaki ^a   Atsumi, Toshiya ^a   Wada, Norio ^a   Yoshioka, Narihito ^a   Ono, Yuri ^a   Tanizawa, Yukio ^b   Koike, Takao ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

GAD antibody; IA 2 antibody; WFS1 gene; Wolfram syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; INSULIN; INSULINOMA ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 2 ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; INSULIN TREATMENT; JAPAN; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; STOP CODON; URODYNAMICS; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; WOLFRAM SYNDROME 1 GENE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 33745231631     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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