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The Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
2 Apr 2009
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have confirmed that polymorphisms in several genes confer susceptibility for the development of autoimmune thyroid disease, and that of these HLA-DR alleles, and the genes encoding CTLA-4, PTPN22, FCRL3, and probably the IL-2 receptor all have associations with other autoimmune disorders, indicating that they provide a lowering of the background threshold for the development of autoimmunity. Other...
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