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Association of a C/T single-nucleotide polymorphism in the 5' untranslated region of the CD40 gene with Graves' disease in Japanese.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 May 2006
Ban Yoshiyuki, Tozaki Teruaki, Taniyama Matsuo, Tomita Motowo, Ban Yoshio
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CONTEXT: Graves' disease (GD) is caused by an interplay of genetic factors and environmental triggers. Recently, a susceptibility locus for GD was mapped to chromosome 20q11 (GD-2). Furthermore, a novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the CD40 gene, which is located in 20q11, was found to...
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