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Vitamin D receptor initiation codon polymorphism influences genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes mellitus in the Japanese population

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D has been shown to exert manifold immunomodulatory effects. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is regarded to be immune-mediated and vitamin D prevents the development of diabetes in the NOD mouse. We studied the association between T1DM and the initiation codon polymorphism in exo...

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Autores principales: Ban, Yoshiyuki, Taniyama, Matsuo, Yanagawa, Tatsuo, Yamada, Satoru, Maruyama, Taro, Kasuga, Akira, Ban, Yoshio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11445000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-2-7