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Protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22 in human autoimmunity.
Autoimmunity - 1 Sept 2007
Vang Torkel, Miletic Ana V, Bottini Nunzio, Mustelin Tomas
Abstract excerpt
The discovery that a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase (LYP), encoded by the PTPN22 gene, is associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has now been verified by numerous studies and has been expanded to rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), systemic lupus erythematosus, Graves' disease, generalized vitiligo and other human autoimmune diseases. In this paper, we...
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