The clinical presentation of autoimmune thyroid disease in men is associated with IL12B genotype

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 508-512

  Walsh, John P ^a,b   Berry, Jemma ^c   Liu, Shu ^d   Panicker, Vijay ^a   Dayan, Colin M ^e   Brix, Thomas H ^f   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^f   Hou, Peng ^d   Shi, Bingyin ^d   Morahan, Grant ^c  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TH1 CELL; THYROID DISEASE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P40; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 79952425175     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03970.x     Document Type: Article

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