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  • Title: Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness: a diabetic subtype associated with a mutation in mitochondrial DNA.
    Author: Maassen JA, van den Ouweland JM, t Hart LM, Lemkes HH.
    Journal: Horm Metab Res; 1997 Feb; 29(2):50-5. PubMed ID: 9105898.
    Abstract:
    Diabetes mellitus is a common disease with variations in its clinical expression and different modes of pathogenesis. The purpose of this review is to discuss a recently identified diabetic subtype. Based on the triad diabetes, maternal inheritance and impaired hearing in this subtype we have proposed the name Maternally Inherited Diabetes and Deafness (MIDD). This diabetic subtype associates in the vast majority of cases with a single mutation in mitochondrial DNA, at position 3243. The clinical presentation of MIDD which can be IDDM-like or NIDDM-like, its frequency of occurrence, possible pathogenic mechanisms and the contribution of other mitochondrial DNA mutations to the development of diabetes will be discussed.
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