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Identification and mapping to chromosome 1 of a susceptibility locus for periinsulitis in non-obese diabetic mice.
Nature - 19 Sept 1991
Garchon H J, Bedossa P, Eloy L, Bach J F
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is a polygenic disease caused by autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the islets of Langerhans. Its onset is preceded by a long and variable period in which lymphoid cells infiltrate the pancreas but first remain outside the islets (peri-insulitis) before invading them (insulitis). Among susceptibility loci, only the major histocompatibility complex...
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