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Thyroid autoantibodies in black and in white children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their first degree relatives.
Autoimmunity - 1 Jan 1990
Burek C L, Rose N R, Guire K E, Hoffman W H
Abstract excerpt
Genetic susceptibility is an important issue in understanding the mechanism of the autoimmune endocrinopathies and in assessing the risk of these conditions in pediatric patients. To this end, we evaluated autoantibodies to thyroid antigens, thyroglobulin (TgA) and microsomal antigen (TMA), in white and in American black juvenile patients with Type I diabetes mellitus (DM) to determine the predictive value of...
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