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Article: Scientists at Ulleval University, Department of Medical Genetics report research in Addison disease immunology.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 8, 2008
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Data detailed in 'Polymorphisms in CLEC16A and CIITA at 16p13 are associated with primary adrenal insufficiency' have been presented. "CONTEXT/OBJECTIVES: It is known that different autoimmune diseases often share the same susceptibility genes. In this study we aimed to investigate if loci found associated with common autoimmune diseases in recent genome-wide association studies also could be susceptibility loci for autoimmune Addison's disease (primary adrenal insufficiency)," scientists in Oslo, Norway report (see also Addison Disease Immunology).
"A total of 139 tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 11 candidate genes (IL2, IL21, IL2RA, CLEC2D, ...