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Non-transmitted maternal HLA DQ2 or DQ8 alleles and risk of Type I diabetes in offspring: the importance of foetal or post partum exposure to diabetogenic molecules.
Diabetologia - 1 Sept 2002
Pani M A, Van Autreve J, Van der Auwera B J, Gorus F K, Badenhoop K
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus results from an immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells for which HLA haplotypes DR3-DQ2 and DR4-DQ8 represent the strongest genetic risk markers. Mothers of patients with rheumatoid arthritis carry more frequently the HLA DR4-DQ8 haplotype as non-transmitted haplotype than mothers of healthy control subjects. As maternal cells have been...
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