Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 59, Issue 3 , Pages 207-217 , March 2003

Clinical features of diabetes mellitus with the mitochondrial DNA 3243 (A–G) mutation in Japanese: Maternal inheritance and mitochondria-related complications

  • Susumu Suzuki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryou-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-22-717-7171; fax: +81-22-717-7177
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  • Yoshitomo Oka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryou-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan
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  • Takashi Kadowaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Metabolic Diseases, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Azuma Kanatsuka

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Center, Kasori General Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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  • Takeshi Kuzuya

      Affiliations

    • JA Shioya General Hospital, Tochigi, Japan
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  • Masashi Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan
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  • Tokio Sanke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Wakayama University of Medical Science, Wakayama, Japan
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  • Yutaka Seino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Kishio Nanjo

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama University of Medical Science, Wakayama, Japan
    • Director of the Research Committee for Specific Types of Diabetes Mellitus with Gene Mutations of the Japan Diabetes Society, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • The Research Committee for Specific Types of Diabetes Mellitus with Gene Mutations of the Japan Diabetes Society

Received 30 July 2002 ,Revised 2 October 2002 ,Accepted 15 October 2002.

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