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We thank W. Cookson for Busselton family DNA samples; M. Schuerenkamp for technical assistance; and the Wellcome Trust, the British Diabetic Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank, the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Bildung und Technologie and the Italian Telethon for financial support.
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Eaves, I., Bennett, S., Forster, P. et al. Transmission ratio distortion at the INS-IGF2 VNTR. Nat Genet 22, 324–325 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/11890
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