Article
The interaction of basic science and population-based research: autoimmune thyroiditis as a case history.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Nov 1991
Rose N R, Burek C L
Abstract excerpt
This brief commentary illustrates how laboratory research compliments populational research. The finding that susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disease in animals is due to the additive effects of a number of unrelated genes led to a field study of a genetically predisposed population. In huma...
Topics
- Animals
- Causality
- Chickens
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetics, Population
- HLA Antigens
- Humans
- Mice
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune