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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring type 1 diabetes mellitus risk: accounting for HLA haplotype.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Mar 2015
Mattsson Kristina, Jönsson Ida, Malmqvist Ebba, Larsson Helena Elding, Rylander Lars
Abstract excerpt
The main objective of this study was to investigate the risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) in children exposed to tobacco smoking in utero, also taking genetic predisposition as expressed by HLA haplotype into account. In Skåne, the southernmost county of Sweden, all children born 1999-2005 who developed T1D were registered, resulting in 344 cases. For each child with T1D, three control children, matched for...
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