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SUBMITTER: Mateus JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7448977 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mateus Juan Camilo JC Rivera Carolina C O'Meara Miguel M Valenzuela Alex A Lizcano Fernando F
Clinical diabetes and endocrinology 20200826
<h4>Background</h4>Diabetes mellitus with autosomal dominant inheritance, such as maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), is a genetic form of diabetes mellitus. MODY is a type of monogenic diabetes mellitus in which multiple genetic variants may cause an alteration to the functioning of beta cells. The three most known forms of MODY are caused by modifications to the <i>hnf4a</i>, <i>gck</i>, and <i>hnf1a</i> genes. However, other MODY variants can cause multiple alterations in the embryon ...[more]