Diabetes and deafness: Is it sufficient to screen for the mitochondrial 3243A>G mutation alone?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2238-2239

  Whittaker, Roger G ^a   Schaefer, Andrew M ^a   McFarland, Robert ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^a   Walker, Mark ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MATERNALLY INHERITED DIABETES AND DEAFNESS;

DEAFNESS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; POINT MUTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548461086     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0466     Document Type: Article

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