Wolfram syndrome (diabetes insipidus, diabetes, optic atrophy, and deafness): Clinical and genetic study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1743-1745

  D'Annunzio, Giuseppe ^a   Minuto, Nicola ^a   D'Amato, Elena ^a   De Toni, Teresa ^a   Lombardo, Fortunato ^b   Pasquali, Lorenzo ^a   Lorini, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 4; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; WFS1 GENE; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WOLFRAMIN PROTEIN;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 56149097205     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-0178     Document Type: Article

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