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A second component of HLA-linked susceptibility to type 1 diabetes maps to class I region.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Oct 2006
Kawabata Yumiko, Ikegami Hiroshi, Fujisawa Tomomi, Noso Shinsuke, Asano Katsuaki, Hiromine Yoshihisa, Ogihara Toshio
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes is a polygenic disease with a major susceptibility locus, IDDM1, located in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region. Although class II loci, DR and DQ genes in particular, are major components of IDDM1, accumulating lines of evidence indicated that IDDM1 consists of multiple components and that non-class II genes in addition to class II genes contribute to susceptibility to and/or age-at-onset of...
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