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Dissecting the Genetic Susceptibility to Graves’ Disease in a Cohort of Patients of Italian Origin
7 Mar 2016
Abstract excerpt
Graves' disease (GD) is an autoimmune oligogenic disorder with a strong hereditary component. Several GD susceptibility genes have been identified and confirmed during the last two decades. However, there are very few studies that evaluated susceptibility genes for GD in specific geographic subsets. Previously, we mapped a new locus on chromosome 3q that was unique to GD families of Italian origin. In the present...
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