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Additive susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes conferred by HLA-DQB1 and insulin genes.
Autoimmunity - 1 Jan 1994
She J X, Bui M M, Tian X H, Muir A, Wakeland E K, Zorovich B, Zhang L P, Liu M C, Thomson G, Maclaren N K
Abstract excerpt
Several genomic polymorphisms at the insulin (INS) gene and its flanking regions were analyzed in 197 unrelated Caucasian patients affected by insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) and 159 ethnically matched, normal controls ascertained from the South-Eastern United States. We found that the frequency of homozygotes for the common variant at the insulin gene was significantly increased in the diabetic population (RR...
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