Endocrine Abstracts

Genome wide association screening (GWAS) has proved invaluable in determining otherwise undetected genetic effects for several common endocrine diseases. The largest GWAS performed in Graves’ disease (GD), to date, has not only confirmed association of several known gene regions, including the HLA region, TSHR and FCRL3, but has also identified several other possible regions of association with GD. As GD shares several susceptibility loci with other endocrin...