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Genome-wide association studies in type 1 diabetes.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Apr 2009
Grant Struan F A, Hakonarson Hakon
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease that typically manifests itself in childhood through the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells, resulting in a lack of production of insulin. T1D is a multifactorial disease with a strong genetic component that is thought to interact with specific environmental triggers. Several genetic determinants of T1D were already established before the era of genome-wide...
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