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A susceptibility allele from a non-diabetes-prone mouse strain accelerates diabetes in NOD congenic mice.
Diabetes - 1 Jan 2003
Brodnicki Thomas C, Quirk Fiona, Morahan Grant
Abstract excerpt
The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse is genetically predisposed for the spontaneous development of type 1 diabetes. Linkage analyses have identified at least 19 susceptibility loci (Idd1-Idd19) that contribute to disease pathogenesis in which lymphocytes mediate the specific destruction of insulin-producing beta-cells. Interestingly, nondiabetic mouse strains have been shown to confer susceptibility alleles to...
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