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SUBMITTER: Sollid LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254370 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sollid Ludvig M LM Pos Wouter W Wucherpfennig Kai W KW
Current opinion in immunology 20140915
It will soon be 50 years since the first MHC associations with human disease were described. These seminal studies opened a flourishing area of research, yet much remains to be discovered. Genome-wide association studies of autoimmune diseases have demonstrated that the MHC region has effect sizes that supersede those for any non-MHC locus for most diseases. Thus, an understanding of how particular MHC alleles confer susceptibility will be essential for a comprehensive understanding of autoimmun ...[more]