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The diabetes susceptibility locus Idd5.1 on mouse chromosome 1 regulates ICOS expression and modulates murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jul 2004
Greve Bernhard, Vijayakrishnan Lalitha, Kubal Aarup, Sobel Raymond A, Peterson Laurence B, Wicker Linda S, Kuchroo Vijay K
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Linkage analysis and congenic mapping in NOD mice have identified a susceptibility locus for type 1 diabetes, Idd5.1 on mouse chromosome 1, which includes the Ctla4 and Icos genes. Besides type 1 diabetes, numerous autoimmune diseases have been mapped to a syntenic region on human chromosome 2q33...
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