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Genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes in childhood - estimation of HLA class II associated disease risk and class II effect in various phases of islet autoimmunity.
Pediatric diabetes - 1 Jul 2016
Ilonen J, Kiviniemi M, Lempainen J, Simell O, Toppari J, Veijola R, Knip M
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OBJECTIVE: The HLA-DR/DQ region remains the major determinant of susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (T1D) despite the more than 50 risk affecting loci outside human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region that have been identified. We aimed at developing a simple risk estimation based on HLA class II genotyping, which was also tested by analyzing HLA class II effect on the autoantibody seroconversion and further...
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