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A review of the genetics of type I diabetes

2024-09-25

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Type I diabetes susceptibility is caused by both environmental and genetic factors, the latter comprising approximately half of the total risk as evidenced by the fact that identical twins have approximately 50% concordance, suggesting 50% of the disease risk is environmental. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes account for approximately half of the genetic risk, as demonstrated by the concordance between HLA...

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Literature Corpus work
3bc47e45-cdab-552c-85d0-32c1c6362266
DOI
10.37349/ei.2024.00160
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