| Literature DB >> 24389221 |
Hui-Zhen Li1, Rui-Yu Li1, Meng Li2.
Abstract
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD), a mitochondrial disease first described in 1992, results from the mitochondrial DNA mutation and affects up to 1% of the patients with diabetes. This review discusses the biomedical mechanisms of MIDD patients; summarizes the recent improvement of clinical and genetic diagnosis of MIDD; outlines the advances of the clinical management of these patients and their families.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24389221 DOI: 10.2741/4244
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Biosci (Landmark Ed) ISSN: 2768-6698