Endocrine Abstracts

Autoimmune Addison’s disease (AAD) is an endocrine disease resulting from the immune system’s destruction of hormone producing cells in the adrenal cortex. Autoantibodies against the steroidogenic enzyme 21-hydroxylase (21OH) is the hallmark of this form, and found in about 85 percent of patients in European populations. Risk factors are both genetic and presumably environmental. Genes associated with AAD are MHC class II especially the DR locus, MHC class I and MIC-...