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Screening of coeliac disease in north Italian children with type 1 diabetes: limited usefulness of HLA-DQ typing.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - 1 May 2004
Contreas G, Valletta E, Ulmi D, Cantoni S, Pinelli L
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To determine the contribution of HLA-DQA1* and HLA-DQB1* genes to the risk of coeliac disease (CD) in a cohort of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) from northern Italy. METHODS: Three hundred and fifty-seven children with T1DM, attending the Childhood Diabetes Unit of the University of Verona, have been regularly tested for serum IgA endomysial antibodies (EMA). All patients with positive EMA...
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