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Protection from insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is linked to a peptide transporter gene.
European journal of immunology - 1 Aug 1993
Caillat-Zucman S, Bertin E, Timsit J, Boitard C, Assan R, Bach J F
Abstract excerpt
HLA class II association with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is well established but is still difficult to map to a particular locus. Polymorphism of the genes coding for transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP1 and TAP2), and located in the HLA class II region, was studied in 167 IDDM patients (116 adult-onset and 51 childhood-onset patients) and 98 normal controls using oligotyping after...
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