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The IDDM-associated solitary retroviral promoters DQ-LTR3 and DQ-LTR13 have a distinct impact on the expression of selected DQB1 genes in different cell lines in vitro.
Immunogenetics - 1 Nov 2003
Krach Katrin, Badenhoop Klaus, Tönjes Ralf R
Abstract excerpt
The HLA complex on chromosome 6, especially of the HLA class II genes, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Three solitary long terminal repeats (LTRs) have been described in the vicinity of HLA DQ, two of them modifying the genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes on high-risk HLA DQ haplotypes. Therefore, we have investigated the putative regulatory...
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