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Gorus, F.K., Weets, I. & Pipeleers, D.G. - to: T. J. Wilkin (2001) The accelerator hypothesis: weight gain as the missing link between Type I and Type II diabetes. Diabetologia 44: 914–921. Diabetologia 45, 288–289 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-001-0724-2

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