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Imprinted and genotype-specific expression of genes at the IDDM2 locus in pancreas and leucocytes.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Jun 1996
Vafiadis P, Bennett S T, Colle E, Grabs R, Goodyer C G, Polychronakos C
Abstract excerpt
One of the loci encoding susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is IDDM2, mapped to a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism situated 596 bp upstream of the insulin gene (INS). The shorter alleles (class I) predispose to IDDM, while the longer class III alleles are protective. Besides INS, it is possible that transcription levels of IGF2, the nearby gene encoding the...
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