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Limited genetic susceptibility to severe Graves' ophthalmopathy: no role for CTLA-4 but evidence for an environmental etiology.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Sept 2000
Villanueva R, Inzerillo A M, Tomer Y, Barbesino G, Meltzer M, Concepcion E S, Greenberg D A, MacLaren N, Sun Z S, Zhang D M, Tucci S, Davies T F
Abstract excerpt
Graves' disease (GD) is an autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) characterized by hyperthyroidism and by the occurrence of a distinctive ophthalmopathy (orbitopathy), which presents with varying degrees of severity. Graves' disease clusters in families but the importance of heredity in the pathogenes...
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