ea0031p318 | Steroids | SFEBES2013
Mitchell Anna L
, Boe Wolff Anette
, Gan Earn H
, MacArthur Katie
, Erichsen Martina M
, Weaver Jolanta U
, Vaidya Bijay
, Bensing Sophie
, Husebye Eystein
, Cordell Heather J
, Pearce Simon H S
Due to the rarity of autoimmune Addisons disease (AAD), it has proved difficult to gather large case cohorts for genetic studies. Linkage analysis offers a powerful means of identifying genetic susceptibility loci but has never been applied to AAD because of the scarcity of families containing ≥2 affected individuals. We collected DNA from 23 such families to perform the first linkage study in AAD.We genotyped 117 samples (50 cases, 67 contro...