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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Autoimmune thyroid disease"”.
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Association of autoimmune thyroid disease and type 1 diabetes
Overt autoimmune hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism were found three times more commonly in insulin-dependent than in non-insulindependent diabetics. Similarly, clinically unrecognised primary autoim¬ mune thyroid failure, as evidenced by elevation of the serum thyrotro¬ phs concentration, was …
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The role of the HLA region in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland characterised by thyrocyte death. Although it was previously thought that Hashimoto’s thyroiditis shared common aetiology with Graves’ disease, there is now significant evidence to suggest separate causal loci. The aims of this …
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Statistical co-analysis of high-dimensional association studies
… results using summary statistics from a related disease. I extended an existing method to enable a shared control design, increasing power and applicability, and developed an approximate bound on false-discovery rate (FDR) for the procedure. Using the new method I identified several new …