The potential for induction of autoimmune disease by a randomly-mutated self-antigen.

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The pathology of most autoimmune diseases is well described. However, the exact event that triggers the onset of the inflammatory cascade leading to disease is less certain and most autoimmune diseases are complex idiopathic diseases with no single gene known to be causative. In many cases, a relation to an infectious disease is described, and it is thought that microbes can play a direct role in induction of...

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