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Environmental trigger(s) of type 1 diabetes: why so difficult to identify?
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2015
Rønningen Kjersti S
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is one of the most common chronic diseases with childhood onset, and the disease has increased two- to fivefold over the past half century by as yet unknown means. T1D occurs when the body's immune system turns against itself so that, in a very specific and targeted way, it destroys the pancreatic β-cells. T1D results from poorly defined interactions between susceptibility genes and...
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