Article
Differences in Gene-Gene Interactions in Graves' Disease Patients Stratified by Age of Onset.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Jurecka-Lubieniecka Beata, Bednarczuk Tomasz, Ploski Rafal, Krajewska Jolanta, Kula Dorota, Kowalska Malgorzata, Tukiendorf Andrzej, Kolosza Zofia, Jarzab Barbara
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Graves' disease (GD) is a complex disease in which genetic predisposition is modified by environmental factors. Each gene exerts limited effects on the development of autoimmune disease (OR = 1.2-1.5). An epidemiological study revealed that nearly 70% of the risk of developing inherited autoimmunological thyroid diseases (AITD) is the result of gene interactions. In the present study, we analyzed the...
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