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Reduced expression of the MDA5 Gene IFIH1 prevents autoimmune diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Jun 2015
Lincez Pamela J, Shanina Iryna, Horwitz Marc S
Abstract excerpt
Although it is widely accepted that type 1 diabetes (T1D) is the result of the autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreas, little is known about the events leading to islet autoimmunity. Epidemiological and genetic data have associated virus infections and antiviral type I interferon (IFN-I) response genes with T1D. Genetic variants in the T1D risk locus interferon induced with helicase C...
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