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Type 1 Diabetes: Current Perspectives.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2016
Kozhakhmetova Aizhan, Gillespie Kathleen M
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes, resulting from the autoimmune destruction of insulin producing islet beta cells is caused by genetic and environmental determinants. Recent studies agree that counterintuitively, the major genetic susceptibility factors are decreasing in frequency as the incidence of the condition increases. This suggests a growing role for environmental determinants but these have been difficult to identify and...
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