Nature Medicine
3, 1080 - 1081 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm1097-1080
Diabetes in midlife: Planting genetic time bombsStephen O'RahillyDepartments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, U.K. Two mouse models of non-insulin-dependent diabetes show many similarities to the human disease (pages 1096−1101).
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