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Type 1 diabetes and the OAS gene cluster: association with splicing polymorphism or haplotype?
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Tessier M-C, Qu H-Q, Fréchette R, Bacot F, Grabs R, Taback S P, Lawson M L, Kirsch S E, Hudson T J, Polychronakos C
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BACKGROUND: The 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase genes (OAS1, OAS2, and OAS3) map to human chromosome 12q24 and encode a family of enzymes pivotal to innate antiviral defence. Recently, the minor allele of an OAS1 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that alters splicing (rs10774671) was found to...
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