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Genetic determinants of diabetes are similarly associated with other immune-mediated diseases.
Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Dec 2007
Duffy David L
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: I discuss the increasing number of genes discovered to exert pleiotropic action on susceptibility to diabetes and simultaneously to other immune-mediated diseases. While a genetic correlation between type 1 diabetes and autoimmunity is not surprising, the mechanism of a relationship to other conditions such as atopy is less obvious. The recent wave of genome-wide association studies offers...
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