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Members of three families with maturity onset diabetes of youth (MODY) and seven with “common” type 2 diabetes were typed for six DNA markers (H-RAS, INS, HBBC, PTH, CALC1, CAT) on the short arm of chromosome 11. Using conventional pairwise linkage analysis, close linkage in the MODY families was excluded for all six markers. By multipoint analysis and a genetic map of the short arm of chromosome 11, MODY was excluded from a region of at least 35 and up to 60 centiMorgans (cM) on the short arm of chromosome 11. Multipoint analysis in the type 2 families also excludes linkage to the INS, H-RAS region of at least 3 and up to 30 cM. This study using multipoint linkage analysis in non-insulin dependent diabetes provides strong evidence against a role for mutations in or around the insulin gene in the causation of MODY or type 2 diabetes in the families studied.
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O'Rahilly, S., Patel, P., Lehmann, O.J. et al. Multipoint linkage analysis of the short arm of chromosome 11 in non-insulin dependent diabetes including maturity onset diabetes of youth. Hum Genet 89, 207–212 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00217125
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