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Genetics of autoimmune diabetes mellitus.
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) - 1 Jan 2008
Cerná Marie
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune diabetes mellitus, called type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), is caused by autoimmune destruction of islet beta cells in the pancreas. T1DM susceptibility loci mapped by different genome screening are IDDM1-IDDM18. It has been estimated that HLA (IDDM1) provides up to 40-50 % of the familial clustering of T1DM (LOD score of 65.8). Many studies have verified that DQB1*0302 is a strong susceptibility gene...
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