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Cytokine gene polymorphisms in autoimmune thyroid disease.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 May 2000
Hunt P J, Marshall S E, Weetman A P, Bell J I, Wass J A, Welsh K I
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to the autoimmune thyroid diseases, Graves' disease (GD) and autoimmune hypothyroidism (AIH), depends on a complex interaction between environmental and genetic factors. The human leukocyte antigen and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated-4 regions appear to influence susceptibility to disease, but the effect is not major, and the other genes remain unknown. Cytokines are crucial in the regulation of...
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