Journal article
Patients with type 2 diabetes have a high frequency of the C282Y mutation of the hemochromatosis gene.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a specific mutation (C282Y) associated with primary hemochromatosis (PHC) is more common in patients with type 2 diabetes than in a control group of patients with type 1 diabetes. Patients with type 2 diabetes have a two- to threefold higher rate of PHC than the general population. Recent identification of a genetic mutation in patients with PHC raises the possibility that the mutation is related to type 2 …
Authors
Kwan T; Leber B; Ahuja S; Carter R; Gerstein HC
Journal
Clinical & Investigative Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 251–257
Publication Date
December 1998
ISSN
0147-958X