The prevalence rate for autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) is about 30 times higher in the type I diabetic (IDDM) families that were ascertained for Genetic Analysis Workshop 5 (GAW5) than in the general population. Two approaches were used to study the clustering of ATD and IDDM in these families: 1)
Type I diabetes — an autoimmune disease?
✍ Scribed by Hubert Kolb
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5699
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