[Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is characterized by the almost complete absence of insulin secretion, which is secondary to an autoimmune destruction or dysfunction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans.]. 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