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HLA DR/DQ alleles and risk of type I diabetes in childhood: a population-based case-control study.
Clinical and experimental medicine - 1 Jul 2005
Altobelli E, Blasetti A, Petrocelli R, Tumini S, Azzarone R, Tiberti S, Battistoni C, Merante D, Verrotti A, Fioroni M A, Iannarelli R, Poccia G, Papola F
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The objective was to evaluate HLA DR/DQ alleles and their risk factor for type 1 diabetes in the Abruzzo region (central Italy). Sixty incident cases from the Abruzzo region were studied together with 120 unrelated control subjects living in the same administrative areas. The relative risk of diabetes associated with the alleles under study was calculated by deriving the odds ratio (OR) maximum likelihood...
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