Molecular mechanisms of autoimmunity.

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Autoimmunity is mediated by a variety of mechanisms, molecular and cellular events, and responses. Predisposition to a given autoimmune response requires the requisite allele(s) that controls antigen presentation by antigen-presenting cells for T cell recognition. Some autoimmune responses emerge following infection by a pathogen, whose protein(s) possess structural similarities in some of its epitopes to regions...

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