Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is a common autoimmune disease of thyroiditis. There is a relation with Vitamin D levels, vitamin D receptor (VDR) and HT reported. More than 30 gene polymorphisms are found in VDR gene. The most common four types of polymorphisms studied in autoimmune disease are FokI (exon 2), BsmI (intron 8), ApaI (intron 8) and TaqI (exon 9). The aim of this study is to investigate the association between VDR TaqI gene polymorphism and HT subty...