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Family-based association study of HLA class II with type 1 diabetes in Moroccans.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Apr 2015
Drissi Bourhanbour A, Benseffaj N, Ouadghiri S, Razine R, Touzani A, Belafraj A, Essakalli M
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BACKGROUND: The T1D is a multifactorial disease; with a strong genetic control. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system plays a crucial role in the autoimmune process leading to childhood diabetes. About 440,000 of the childhood population of the world (1.8 billion children under 14 years of age), have type 1 diabetes, and each year an additional 70,000 develop this disorder. The objective of this study was to...
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