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A population‐based study of Graves' disease in Danish twins
1 Apr 1998
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OBJECTIVE: The aetiology of Graves' disease (GD) is generally thought to fit a multi-factorial pattern of inheritance in which clinical disease develops on the basis of genetic susceptibility interacting with environmental and endogenous factors. In previous twin studies the probandwise concordance rates for hyperthyroidism were as high as 0.86 in monozygotic twins and 0.20 in dizygotic twins, indicating a very...
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