Article
Autoimmune thyroid diseases: genetic susceptibility of thyroid-specific genes and thyroid autoantigens contributions.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Apr 2009
Hadj-Kacem H, Rebuffat S, Mnif-Féki M, Belguith-Maalej S, Ayadi H, Péraldi-Roux S
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune thyroid diseases are common polygenic multifactorial disorders with the environment contributing importantly to the emergence of the disease phenotype. Some of the disease manifestations, such as severe thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy, pretibial myxedema and thyroid antigen/antibody immune complex nephritis are unusual to rare. The spectrum of autoimmune thyroid diseases includes: Graves' disease...
Topics
- Autoantibodies
- Autoantigens
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Iodide Peroxidase
- Receptors, Thyrotropin
- Symporters
- Thyroglobulin
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune
