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Genetic association between a lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22) and type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Mar 2005
Zheng Weipeng, She Jin-Xiong
Abstract excerpt
The lymphoid-specific phosphatase (LYP) encoded by PTPN22 is involved in preventing spontaneous T-cell activation by dephosphorylating and inactivating T-cell receptor-associated Csk kinase. We have genotyped 396 type 1 diabetic patients and 1,178 control subjects of Caucasian descent from north central Florida and report a strong association between type 1 diabetes and a polymorphism (R620W) in the PTPN22 gene....
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