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Autoantibody negative new onset type 1 diabetic patients lacking high risk HLA alleles in a caucasian population: are these type 1b diabetes cases?
Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews - 1 Jan 2000
Tiberti C, Buzzetti R, Anastasi E, Dotta F, Vasta M, Petrone A, Cervoni M, Torresi P, Vecci E, Multari G, Di Mario U
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BACKGROUND: In Caucasians, a small number of Type 1 diabetic patients do not show evidence of humoral islet autoimmunity at disease onset, at least with common screening procedures. In African- and Hispanic-American diabetic children at time of diagnosis, many show no evidence of autoimmunity but have an atypical clinical form of the disease. According to the recent American Diabetes Association classification,...
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