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Affiliation
Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. harvest.gu@ki.se
Authors
Abu Seman N, Botusan IR, Brismar K, Catrina SB, Gu HF, Gu T, Lokman EF, Sunkari VG, Zheng X
Studies
Citation
Gu HF, Zheng X, Abu Seman N, Gu T, Botusan IR, Sunkari VG, Lokman EF, Brismar K, Catrina SB. Impact of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 α (HIF1A) Pro582Ser polymorphism on diabetes nephropathy. Diabetes Care 2013 Feb;36(2):415-21. Epub 2012 Sep 18.Abstract
Hypoxia plays a major pathogenic role in diabetic nephropathy (DN). We have investigated in this study the effect of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 α subunit (HIF1A) genetic polymorphisms on the development of DN.