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Preliminary evidence that an endogenous retroviral long-terminal repeat (LTR13) at the HLA-DQB1 gene locus confers susceptibility to Addison's disease.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Jun 2002
Pani Michael A, Seidl Christian, Bieda Katrin, Seissler Jochen, Krause Maren, Seifried Erhard, Usadel Klaus-H, Badenhoop Klaus
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OBJECTIVE: Addison's disease is associated with particular haplotypes of the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) region [DQA1*0501-DQB1*0201 (DQ2) and DQA1*0301-DQB1*0302 (DQ8)]. This locus harbours several human endogenous retroviral (HERV) long-terminal repeats (LTR). LTRs within the HLA region have been shown to confer additional susceptibility to type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. DESIGN: We investigated the...
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