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Collective Genetic Interaction Effects and the Role of Antigen-Presenting Cells in Autoimmune Diseases.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Woo Hyung Jun, Yu Chenggang, Reifman Jaques
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune diseases occur when immune cells fail to develop or lose their tolerance toward self and destroy body's own tissues. Both insufficient negative selection of self-reactive T cells and impaired development of regulatory T cells preventing effector cell activation are believed to contribute to autoimmunity. Genetic predispositions center around the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II loci...
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