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spellingShingle Ait-Lounis, Aouatef, Bonal, Claire, Seguín-Estévez, Queralt, Schmid, Christoph D., Bucher, Philipp, Herrera, Pedro L., Durand, Bénédicte, Meda, Paolo, Reith, Walter, Diabetes, The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Internal Medicine
title The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
title_full The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
title_fullStr The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
title_full_unstemmed The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
title_short The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
title_sort the transcription factor rfx3 regulates β-cell differentiation, function, and glucokinase expression
title_unstemmed The Transcription Factor Rfx3 Regulates β-Cell Differentiation, Function, and Glucokinase Expression
topic Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Internal Medicine
url http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db09-0986