Gm phenotypes in autoimmune thyroid disease.
The Gm phenotype Gm f,b or Gm f,n,b was found in all forty patients with Graves' disease studied, contrasted with thirty-five out of forty controls and twenty out of thirty-one patients with thyroiditis. The difference between the two groups with autoimmune thyroid disease was significant. These results suggest that thyroid stimulating antibodies may be allotypically restricted.
D000483:Alleles; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000235:genetics*
D007074:Immunoglobulin G