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Stepwise or linear decrease in penetrance of type 1 diabetes with lower-risk HLA genotypes over the past 40 years.
Diabetes - 1 Mar 2011
Steck Andrea K, Armstrong Taylor K, Babu Sunanda R, Eisenbarth George S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to test if the proportion of new-onset diabetic subjects with the HLA-DR3/4-DQB1*0302 genotype is decreasing over time. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We analyzed HLA class II genotype frequencies over time in two large populations with type 1 diabetes diagnosed at ≤18 years of age. There were 4,075 subjects from the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium (T1DGC) and 1,675...
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