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Amino acid polymorphisms altering the glycosylation of IL-2 do not protect from type 1 diabetes in the NOD mouse.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jul 2009
Kamanaka Masahito, Rainbow Dan, Schuster-Gossler Karin, Eynon Elizabeth E, Chervonsky Alexander V, Wicker Linda S, Flavell Richard A
Abstract excerpt
Idd3 is one of many gene regions that affect the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse. Idd3 has been localized to a 650-kb region on chromosome 3 containing the IL-2 gene. Exon 1 of the IL-2 gene is polymorphic between the susceptible NOD and the protective C57BL/6 (B6) alleles, causing multiple amino acid changes that have been proposed to be responsible for the differing...
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