[To identify the genetic marker for diabetic nephropathy, we examined the association between the (A-C)n dinucleotide repeat polymorphism upstream of the matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) gene and diabetic nephropathy in a group of Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE