Increasing incidence of type I diabetes - Role for genes?

BMC Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pitkäniemi, Janne ^a,b   Onkamo, Päivi ^a   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^b   Arjas, Elja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINLAND; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NEWBORN; PENETRANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PENETRANCE;

EID: 2442720269     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-5-5     Document Type: Article

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