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Seven newly identified loci for autoimmune thyroid disease.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Cooper Jason D, Simmonds Matthew J, Walker Neil M, Burren Oliver, Brand Oliver J, Guo Hui, Wallace Chris, Stevens Helen, Coleman Gillian, Franklyn Jayne A, Todd John A, Gough Stephen C L
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), including Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), is one of the most common of the immune-mediated diseases. To further investigate the genetic determinants of AITD, we conducted an association study using a custom-made single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, the ImmunoChip. The SNP array contains all known and genotype-able SNPs across 186 distinct...
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