Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Glucokinase (GCK) is a gene which plays an important role in recognising how high the blood glucose is in the body. It acts as the glucose sensor for the pancreas. Changes in the GCK gene can lead to increases in blood glucose and affected people may be diagnosed with diabetes although this rise in blood glucose is mild and does not need treatment. Glucokinase diabetes is one of familial diabetes types that called MODY (maturity onset diabetes of the young). We rep...