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Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY3), a monogenic subtype of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) with an early age of onset, is characterized by a primary defect in insulin secretion. Recently, it has been shown that mutations of the gene encoding the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α (HNF-1α) cause MODY3. Since NIDDM in Japanese is characterized by insulin secretory defects due to primary β-cell dysfunction, we screened 60 Japanese nonobese subjects with early-onset NIDDM for mutations in this gene, 45 of whom had a first-degree relative with NIDDM. Direct sequencing of the ten exons and flanking introns of the gene in these subjects identified eight nucleotide substitutions including two amino acid changes, Ile-27-Leu and Ser-487-Asn, the frequencies of which were not significantly different in subjects with early-onset NIDDM and nondiabetic subjects. These results suggest that mutations in the HNF-1α gene are not a major cause of early-onset NIDDM in Japanese.
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Received: September 17, 1997 / Accepted: November 19, 1997
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Nishigori, H., Yamada, S., Kohama, T. et al. Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α gene (MODY3) are not a major cause of early-onset non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus in Japanese. J Hum Genet 43, 107–110 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100380050049
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