Analysis of the threshold liability model provides new understanding of causation in autoimmune diseases

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-261

  Haegert, D G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MODEL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERODERMA; STATISTICS;

EID: 3242756750     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.02.015     Document Type: Article

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