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Association study of autoimmune thyroid disease at 5q23-q33 in Japanese patients.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2003
Akamizu Takashi, Hiratani Hitomi, Ikegami Satoshi, Rich Stephen S, Bowden Donald W
Abstract excerpt
As part of a genome scan to locate familial Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) genes, an autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) susceptibility locus has recently been identified at 5q31-q33 in a Japanese population. We performed an association study using six microsatellite markers located at this locus in a set of 440 unrelated Japanese AITD patients and 218 Japanese controls. We found significant...
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