ea0019p375 | Thyroid | SFEBES2009
Simmonds M J
, Newby P R
, Franklyn J A
, Gough S C L
Identifying the pathogenic pathways involved in complex diseases such as GravesÂ’ disease (GD) has proved challenging. Although several genetic risk factors, including the HLA class II region, CTLA4, PTPN22 and CD25, encode molecules playing key roles in antigen presentation and controlling T cell recognition/signalling, the identification of novel susceptibility loci has the potential to provide further insights into disease pathogenesis. Recently gen...