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Coeliac disease: investigation of proposed causal variants in the CTLA4 gene region.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2003
King A L, Moodie S J, Fraser J S, Curtis D, Reid E, Dearlove A M, Ciclitira P J
Abstract excerpt
Coeliac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. Patients with CD have an increased prevalence of other autoimmune disorders, including type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Graves' disease (GD). CD shares with these conditions certain HLA sus...
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