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The gene for human IL-21 and genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes in the Japanese.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Oct 2006
Asano Katsuaki, Ikegami Hiroshi, Fujisawa Tomomi, Kawabata Yumiko, Noso Shinsuke, Hiromine Yoshihisa, Ogihara Toshio
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes is under polygenic control both in humans and the NOD mouse. Recently a possible role of IL-21 in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes was demonstrated in the NOD mouse. Furthermore, the murine IL-21 gene is mapped to the Idd3 interval, making the human IL-21 gene (IL21) a functional as well as positional candidate for susceptibility. We therefore screened sequence variants of IL21 and studied the...
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