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Screening for an AIRE-1 mutation in patients with Addison's disease, type 1 diabetes, Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis as well as in APECED syndrome.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Mar 2001
Meyer G, Donner H, Herwig J, Böhles H, Usadel K H, Badenhoop K
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OBJECTIVE: Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) is a rare systemic autoimmune disorder of monogenic and autosomal-recessive inheritance. To date, 29 APECED causing mutations have been identified in the responsible gene AIRE-1, coding for a regulator of transcrip...
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