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Autoimmunity-Associated PTPN22 Polymorphisms in Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of the Adult Differ from Those of Type 1 Diabetes Patients.
International archives of allergy and immunology - 1 Jan 2018
Heneberg Petr, Kocková Lucie, Čecháková Marie, Daňková Pavlína, Černá Marie
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A portion of adults with humoral immune changes have clinical diabetes that is initially not insulin-requiring (latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult, LADA). One of the genes strongly associated with autoimmune diabetes is PTPN22. We hypothesized that the manifestation and clinical features of LADA are linked to functional variants of PTPN22. METHODS: We genotyped allelic frequencies of 1 protective...
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