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Genetic markers, humoral autoimmunity, and prediction of type 1 diabetes in siblings of affected children. Childhood Diabetes in Finland Study Group.
Diabetes - 1 Jan 2000
Kulmala P, Savola K, Reijonen H, Veijola R, Vähäsalo P, Karjalainen J, Tuomilehto-Wolf E, Ilonen J, Tuomilehto J, Akerblom H K, Knip M
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The relationships between genetic markers and disease-associated autoantibodies were studied in an unselected population of 701 siblings of children with type 1 diabetes, and the predictive characteristics of these markers over a period of 9 years were determined. Increased prevalences of all the antibodies were closely associated with HLA identity to the index case, the DR4 and DQB1*0302 alleles, and the DR3/4...
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