[Because acanthosis nigricans is commonly accompanied by severe hyperinsulinemia and obesity, and obesity is a major factor in insulin resistance, this study was initiated to assess the prevalence of mutations in the insulin receptor gene in Chinese patients with extreme insulin resistance defined by hyperinsulinemia, obesity and acanthosis nigricans.]. 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