A review of maternally inherited diabetes and deafness.

Front Biosci (Landmark Ed)

Department of Health, Hotan Detachment of the Xinjiang Armed Police Corps, Hotan 848011, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Published: January 2014

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.

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