| Literature DB >> 15035974 |
Lars Hornum1, Helle Markholst.
Abstract
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease with a complex polygenic inheritance. Until recently, only three susceptibility genes had been reproducibly identified, namely HLA, INS-VNTR, and CTLA4. During the past 7 years, a number of new putative susceptibility genes have been isolated from both human and animal models of the disease. We present eight genes implicated in type 1 diabetes etiology and discuss them in relation to the pathogenesis of the disease: VDR, IL6, IL12B, AIRE, FOXP3, B2m, Cblb, and Lyp/Ian4l1.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15035974 DOI: 10.1007/s11892-004-0069-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Diab Rep ISSN: 1534-4827 Impact factor: 4.810