Objectives (a) To study whether there was an increased prevalence of glucose intolerance in the parents of probands with Type 1 diabetes and (b) to look for any possible link between the glucose intolerance in the parents with HLA-DQB1 alleles transmitted in excess to the Type 1 diabetes offspring.
The road not taken: A path to curing type 1 diabetes?
✍ Scribed by Michael J. Haller; Mark A. Atkinson; Desmond A. Schatz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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