Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is a common autoimmune disorder of the thyroid (AITD) which affects about 1–2% of the European population. The disease often clusters in families, which is why many attempts have been undertaken to find the genetic background that would underly the predisposition to HT. In contrast to another AITD - Graves’ disease, results of genetic analyses have been ambiguous and have failed to find a major genetic locus that would be...