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Molecular basis for HLA-DQ associations with IDDM.
Diabetes - 1 Aug 1998
Nepom G T, Kwok W W
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune diabetes is the clinical end point for a sequential cascade of immunologic events that occur in a genetically susceptible individual. Structural and functional analysis of the HLA class II susceptibility genes in IDDM suggests likely molecular mechanisms for several of the key steps in this cascade of autoimmune events. We outline a pathway in which the HLA-DQ genes associated with IDDM bias the...
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