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Horm Metab Res 1997; 29(2): 50-55
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-978984
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Maternally Inherited Diabetes and Deafness: A Diabetic Subtype Associated with a Mutation in Mitochondrial DNA

J. A. Maassen1 , J. M. W. van den Ouweland1 , L. M. 'tHart1 , H. H. P. J. Lemkes2
  • 1Department of Medical Biochemistry, Leiden University, Leiden
  • 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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23 April 2007 (online)

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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 lnherited 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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Diabetes Mellitus - Deafness - Maternal Inheritance - Mitochondrial DNA

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