What is the evidence of genetic factors in the etiology of Graves' disease? A brief review.

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Graves' disease (GD) is generally thought of as a multifactorial disorder in which genetic susceptibility interacts with environmental and endogenous factors to cause disease. The importance of genetic factors is suggested by the clustering of GD within families and by a higher concordance rate for disease in monozygotic than in dizygotic twins. This has, however, recently been shown to be less pronounced than...

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