Diabetes-prone and diabetes-resistant BB rats share a common major diabetes susceptibility locus, iddm4: additional evidence for a "universal autoimmunity locus" on rat chromosome 4.

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Diabetes-prone (DP) BB rats develop autoimmune type 1 diabetes spontaneously. At least five loci are linked to disease expression: the major histocompatibility complex (iddm2), two susceptibility loci (iddm4, iddm5), and, possibly, a resistance locus (iddm3). Spontaneous disease also requires homozygosity for lyp/iddm1, which causes lymphopenia. It has not been determined whether lyp/iddm1 is required for...

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