| Literature DB >> 15728308 |
D Ramirez-Montealegre1, S Chattopadhyay, T M Curran, C Wasserfall, L Pritchard, D Schatz, J Petitto, D Hopkins, J-X She, P G Rothberg, M Atkinson, D A Pearce.
Abstract
The pathogenic mechanisms underlying Batten disease are unclear. Patients uniformly possess autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) that are predominantly reactive with a region of GAD (amino acids 1 to 20) distinct from subjects with autoimmune type 1 diabetes or stiff-person syndrome. Batten patients did not possess autoantibodies against other type 1 diabetes-associated autoantigens and human leukocyte antigen genotypes revealed no specific associations with this disease.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15728308 DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000151973.08426.7E
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910