Various immune-related diseases have a strong genetic overlap

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

A limited number of genes appear to be involved in the development of eleven immune-related diseases such as type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease, Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis. This has emerged from an analysis by geneticists at the University Medical Centre Groningen of all globally conducted association studies of these diseases...

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