[However, when the knockout mice become obese with age, they develop fasting hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance, while neither fasting hyperglycemia nor glucose intolerance is evident in the aged knockout mice without obesity, suggesting that both the genetic defect in glucose-induced insulin secretion and the acquired insulin resistance due to environmental factors are necessary to develop diabetes in Kir6.2 knockout mice.]. 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