Access

Letter

Nature Genetics 36, 1301–1305 (1 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/ng1475

Mutations in PTF1A cause pancreatic and cerebellar agenesis

Gabrielle S Sellick , Karen T Barker , Irene Stolte-Dijkstra , Christina Fleischmann , Richard J Coleman , Christine Garrett , Anna L Gloyn , Emma L Edghill , Andrew T Hattersley , Peter K Wellauer , Graham Goodwin & Richard S Houlston

Individuals with permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus usually present within the first three months of life and require insulin treatment. We recently identified a locus on chromosome 10p13–p12.1 involved in permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus associated with pancreatic and cerebellar agenesis in a genome-wide linkage search of a consanguineous Pakistani family.