Article
Insulin-dependent diabetes and human leucocyte antigens.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Mar 1997
Boitard C, Caillat-Zucman S, Timsit J
Abstract excerpt
The association of diabetes with HLA class I alleles in the early 1970s and with HLA class II alleles in the late 1970s provided a crucial, though indirect, indication of the role of immune phenomena in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Genotyping of HLA alleles in th...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Ethnicity
- Genotype
- HLA Antigens
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR Antigens
- Humans
- Risk Factors