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TAP2 association with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is secondary to HLA-DQB1.
Human immunology - 1 May 1995
Jackson D G, Capra J D
Abstract excerpt
IDDM is known to be associated with genes of HLA complex, particularly alleles of HLA-DQ. The 40-kb TAP gene complex is located approximately 150 kb centrometric to the DQB1 locus. The TAP1-TAP2 protein heterodimer is required for normal expression levels of class I, molecules on the surface of cells. While present evidence implicates HLA-DQ as the major susceptibility locus in IDDM, as class I expression...
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