Endocrine autoimmunity in patients with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) - association with HLA genotype.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with LADA have higher prevalence of thyroid autoimmune diseases. In patients with LADA similarly to type 1 genotype DQA1*0301 seems to confer susceptibility to thyroid autoimmunity and DQB1*201 to celiac disease.
PMID: 26884287 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Endokrynologia Polska - Category: Endocrinology Authors: Szepietowska B, Wawrusiewicz-Kurylonek N, Krętowski A, Górska M, Szelachowska M Tags: Endokrynol Pol Source Type: research
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