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Humoral beta-cell autoimmunity in relation to HLA-defined disease susceptibility in preclinical and clinical type 1 diabetes.
American journal of medical genetics - 30 May 2002
Knip Mikael, Kukko Marika, Kulmala Petri, Veijola Riitta, Simell Olli, Akerblom Hans K, Ilonen Jorma
Abstract excerpt
We have studied the relationship between diabetes-associated autoantibodies and various HLA genotypes and alleles in patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, in non-diabetic siblings and in children representing the general population to test the hypothesis that specific HLA genes regulate the humoral immune response to various autoantigens. Among the newly diagnosed patients we observed that those carrying...
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