New Genetic Insights from Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

The autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs) (Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis) are complex genetic diseases which most likely have more than 20 genes contributing to the clinical phenotypes. To date, the genes known to be contributing fall into two categories: immune regulatory genes (includi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Terry F. Davies, Rauf Latif, Xiaoming Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Thyroid Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/623852