The threshold hypothesis: Solving the equation of nurture vs nature in type 1 diabetes

Diabetologia

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2232-2236

  Wasserfall, C ^a   Nead, K ^a   Mathews, C ^a   Atkinson, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aetiopathogenesis; Disease modelling; Environment; Genetics; Immunology; Type 1 diabetes; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80054689625     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-011-2244-z     Document Type: Review

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