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Genetic profiling in Graves' disease: further evidence for lack of a distinct genetic contribution to Graves' ophthalmopathy.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Jul 2012
Yin Xiaoming, Latif Rauf, Bahn Rebecca, Davies Terry F
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BACKGROUND: Graves' disease (GD), including Graves' ophthalmopathy or orbitopathy (GO), is an autoimmune disease with an environmental and genetic component to its etiology. The genetic contribution to the GO clinical phenotype remains unclear. Previous data from our laboratory and others have suggested that GO has no specific genetic component distinct from GD itself, while other reports have occasionally...
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