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Lessons on immune tolerance from the monogenic disease APS1.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2007
DeVoss Jason J, Anderson Mark S
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmunity is a complex disease process that results from a breakdown in the ability of the immune system to discriminate self from non-self. One approach to unraveling how autoimmunity occurs is to study monogenic diseases, for which a single gene defect is responsible. Recent work on the monogenic autoimmune disease 'autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1' (APS1) and on the causal gene of this...
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