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CTLA-4 49 A/G dimorphism and type 1 diabetes susceptibility: a French case-control study and segregation analysis. Evidence of a maternal effect.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2002
Fajardy I, Vambergue A, Stuckens C, Weill J, Danze P M, Fontaine P
Abstract excerpt
Several studies have demonstrated an association of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated molecule 4 (CTLA-4) (IDDM 12) alanine 17 with type 1 diabetes, but we wished to study the parental effect of CTLA-4 49 A/G dimorphism in diabetic families. The CTLA-4 exon 1 polymorphism (49 A/G), HLA-DRB1 and insulin gene (INS) variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) were analysed in 134 type 1 diabetic patients vs. 273 control...
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