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Heat-shock protein gene is not associated with type-1 diabetes in African Americans.
Journal of the National Medical Association - 1 Jul 2007
Berka Noureddine, Bland Gail N, Erabhaoui El Hajja, Dunston Georgia M
Abstract excerpt
The polymorphism at the heat-shock protein gene was reported to be associated with type-1 diabetes in Caucasians but not in the Japanese. We report in this study the association between HSP70-1 alleles and type-1 diabetes in 30 unrelated African-American patients and 96 ethnically matched controls from the Washington, DC area. The polymorphic variation (A-C transversion) at position -110 in the HSP70-1 promoter...
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