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SUBMITTER: Anderson AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4414806 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anderson Ana C AC Sullivan Jenna M JM Tan Dewar J DJ Lee David H DH Kuchroo Vijay K VK
Journal of autoimmunity 20150226
Genetic variants in il2 and il2ra have been associated with autoimmune disease susceptibility in both genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans and in genetic linkage studies in experimental models of autoimmunity. Specifically, genetic variants resulting in a low IL-2 phenotype are susceptibility alleles while variants resulting in a high IL-2 phenotype are resistance alleles. The association of high IL-2 phenotypes with resistance has been attributed primarily to the T cell intrinsic pr ...[more]