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Lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22/LYP) variant and Graves' disease in a Polish population: association and gene dose-dependent correlation with age of onset.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Jun 2005
Skórka Agata, Bednarczuk Tomasz, Bar-Andziak Ewa, Nauman Janusz, Ploski Rafal
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OBJECTIVE: Susceptibility to Graves' disease (GD) is to a significant extent determined by genetic factors of which the best known are those associated with the HLA and the CTLA4 locus. Recently, two studies on British Caucasians reported that a single nucleotide polymorphism, 1858 C > T in PTPN22, encoding Arg620Trp in the lymphoid protein tyrosine phosphatase (LYP), which is a negative regulator of T-cell...
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