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Early life phenotypes of type 1 diabetes genetic risk
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Observational studies have shown that children who develop type 1 diabetes (T1D) have larger size at birth - a marker of foetal growth - or rapid postnatal weight gains. Recent studies have explored the contribution of the T1D susceptibility human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles, which explain half of disease heritability, to perinatal growth but findings are inconsistent. In the Cambridge Baby Growth Study (CBGS)...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bdc98b05-bb7e-587c-8384-a4816e28753d
- DOI
- 10.17863/cam.38511
