Type 1 diabetes: A genetic Pandora's box?

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 511-512

  Thomas, Inas H ^a   Pietropaolo, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; HLA DQ2 ANTIGEN; HLA DQ8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 19; INTERLEUKIN 20;

AUTOIMMUNITY; EDITORIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS;

EID: 78649803676     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00742.x     Document Type: Editorial

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