Osawa H, Onuma H, Murakami A, Ochi M, Nishimiya T, Kato K, Shimizu I, Fujii Y, Ohashi J, Makino H: Systematic search for single nucleotide polymorphisms in the resistin gene: the absence of evidence for the association of three identified single nucleotide polymorphisms with Japanese type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 51:863–866, 2002
The authors of the above-listed article would like to make the following changes to avoid confusion when readers compare the exon-intron boundaries in their article with those in the article on the resistin gene by Sentinelli et al. (Diabetes 51:860–862, 2002).
The changes concern the following two sentences: page 863, second column, seven lines from the bottom (“We initially examined the three exons, as well as the introns of the resistin gene, in 24 type 2 diabetic patients using PCR direct sequencing.”); and page 865, second column, three lines from the bottom (“The 5′ flanking region and three exons, as well as the introns of the resistin gene, were individually amplified using primers, as described in Table 1.”).
In both cases, the authors amplified exon 1 with noncoding sequences and exons 2 to 4 including coding sequences as well as the introns of the resistin gene by PCR.
Thus, the corrected sentences should appear as follows: page 863, “We initially examined exon 1 with noncoding sequences and exons 2–4 including coding sequences, as well as the introns of the resistin gene, in 24 type 2 diabetic patients using PCR direct sequencing”; and page 865, “Exon 1 with noncoding sequences and exons 2–4 including coding sequences, as well as the introns of the resistin gene, were individually amplified using primers, as described in Table 1.”
