Marquardt and Loriaux (I974) describe a kinship of two siblings with the combination of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, and optic atrophy in which there was additional evidence of renal tract dilatation, amino-aciduria, and neurosensory hearing deficit. These authors cite 41 cases of optic atrophy and diabetes mellitus reported since an association of these conditions was first described...

Wolfram syndrome (WS), or DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness), is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder with a median life expectancy of 30 years and occurs in one in 770,000 live births. To date only five successful pregnancies have been reported among WS subjects worldwide. Here we describe the sixth report of successful pregnancy in a ...

The absolute or relative lack of insulin is the key factor in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. Although the connection between loss of function mutations of the WFS1 gene and DIDMOAD-syndrome including diabetes mellitus underpins the significance of wolframin in the pathogenesis, exact role of WFS1 polymorphic variants in the development of type 1 and type 2 diabetes has not been discover...

BACKGROUND Wolfram Syndrome (WS) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by Diabetes Insipidus, Diabetes Mellitus, Optic Atrophy, and Deafness identified by the acronym "DIDMOAD". The WS gene, WFS1, encodes a transmembrane protein called Wolframin, which recent evidence suggests may serve as a novel endoplasmic reticulum calcium channel in pancreatic β-cells and neuro...

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UNLABELLED The aim of the present paper is to describe a novel missense mutation (G107R) of WFS1 gene that was unexpectedly detected, in two siblings from Southern Italy, outside exon 8; a very unusual finding which has previously been reported only twice in Italian patients with Wolfram syndrome (WS). Although in Spanish pedigrees' WFS1 mutations are frequently located in exon 4, this finding ...

EDITOR—Wolfram syndrome (OMIM 222300) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the association of juvenile, non-autoimmune, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. The physician D J Wolfram, who reported four cases in 1938, is credited with the first description. With the identification of other clinical features, Wolfram syndrome was also referred to as DIDMO...

EDITOR—Wolfram syndrome (OMIM 222300) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the association of juvenile, non-autoimmune, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. The physician D J Wolfram, who reported four cases in 1938, is credited with the first description. With the identification of other clinical features, Wolfram syndrome was also referred to as DIDMO...

Wolfram syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by juvenile diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, optic atrophy and a number of neurological symptoms including deafness, ataxia and peripheral neuropathy. Mitochondrial DNA deletions have been described in a few patients and a locus has been mapped to 4p16 by linkage analysis. Susceptibility to psychiatric illness is reported t...