Non-DNA binding, dominant-negative, human PPARgamma mutations cause lipodystrophic insulin resistance.

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Published in Cell Metab on October 01, 2006

Authors

Maura Agostini1, Erik Schoenmakers, Catherine Mitchell, Istvan Szatmari, David Savage, Aaron Smith, Odelia Rajanayagam, Robert Semple, Jian'an Luan, Louise Bath, Anthony Zalin, Mourad Labib, Sudhesh Kumar, Helen Simpson, Dirk Blom, David Marais, John Schwabe, Inês Barroso, Richard Trembath, Nicholas Wareham, Laszlo Nagy, Mark Gurnell, Stephen O'Rahilly, Krishna Chatterjee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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