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Mechanisms in endocrinology: autoimmune thyroid disease: old and new players.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 Jun 2014
Effraimidis Grigoris, Wiersinga Wilmar M
Abstract excerpt
The last 10 years have seen some progress in understanding the etiology of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). The female preponderance can now be explained - at least in part - by fetal microchimerism and X-chromosome inactivation. The number of identified susceptibility genes for AITD is increasing (among others now including TSHR, TG, HLA, CTLA4, PTPN22, CD40, FCRL3, IL2RA, and FOXP3), but these genes together...
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