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Review
. 2000 Dec;12(6):691-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0952-7915(00)00164-3.

Mapping and identification of autoimmunity genes

J A Encinas  1 , V K Kuchroo
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Mapping and identification of autoimmunity genes

J A Encinas et al. Curr Opin Immunol. 2000 Dec.

Abstract

Over the past several years, intense effort has been made to map the chromosomal locations of genes involved in the susceptibility to autoimmune diseases. The first phase of this mapping effort-performed in most cases by using microsatellite markers to scan the genome for loci that are linked with disease-has generated first-draft maps for numerous autoimmune diseases in humans, mice and rats, pointing to as many as 20 different loci in some diseases. The second phase is now beginning, with efforts focused on narrowing the loci sufficiently to allow the positional cloning of disease-associated alleles. From these mapping data it is clear that some of these loci overlap between various autoimmune diseases and preliminary results suggest that indeed there is a sharing of 'autoimmunity genes' between various autoimmune diseases.

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