Diabetic nephropathy is not associated with the dinucleotide repeat polymorphism upstream of the aldose reductase (ALR2) gene but with erythrocyte aldose reductase content in Japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes. 1999 Feb;48(2):420-2. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.48.2.420.

Authors

S Maeda¹, M Haneda, H Yasuda, T Tachikawa, K Isshiki, D Koya, M Terada, H Hidaka, A Kashiwagi, R Kikkawa

Affiliation

¹ The Third Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.

PMID: 10334324
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.48.2.420

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Aldehyde Reductase / blood*
Aldehyde Reductase / genetics*
Asian People / genetics
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / blood*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / ethnology
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / genetics*
Diabetic Nephropathies / genetics*
Dinucleotide Repeats / genetics*
Erythrocytes / enzymology*
Female
Humans
Japan
Male
Middle Aged
Polymorphism, Genetic / genetics*

Substances

Aldehyde Reductase