title: Comparative genetics of type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disease: common loci, common pathways?
abstract: Genome-scale analysis in type 1 diabetes has resulted in a number of non-major histocompatibility complex loci of varying levels of statistical significance. In no case has a specific gene been proven to be the source of genetic linkage at any candidate locus. Comparative analysis of the position of loci for type 1 diabetes with candidate loci from other autoimmune/inflammatory diseases shows considerable overlap. This supports a hypothesis that the underlying genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes may be shared with other clinically distinct autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythemastosus, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn's Disease.
authors.affiliation: Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. beckerk@grc.nia.nih.gov
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000235:genetics*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype