Genetics of autoimmune thyroid disease: lack of evidence for linkage to HLA within families.

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Clinical and epidemiologic observations, including the association of Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) with the HLA gene complex, support a role for specific disease-related genes in the development of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). The combination of HLA and immunoglobulin heavy chain allotypes (Gm) has previously been reported to be predictive of AITD in multiply affected Japanese...

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