Article
Immunogenetic determinants and prediction of IDDM in French schoolchildren.
Diabetes - 1 Sept 1995
Lévy-Marchal C, Dubois F, Noël M, Tichet J, Czernichow P
Abstract excerpt
Islet cell antibodies (ICAs) are predictive markers of the disease in first-degree relatives of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The large majority of newly diagnosed cases, however, will develop in children with no family history of diabetes. In France, the risk for deve...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Alleles
- Autoantibodies
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Family
- Female
- France
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Humans
- Immunogenetics
- Islets of Langerhans
- Male