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SUBMITTER: Zarrin R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025915 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zarrin Rasoul R Bagheri Morteza M Mehdizadeh Alireza A Ayremlou Parvin P Faghfouri Amir Hossein AH
Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran 20180205
<b>Background:</b> Some genetic factors are involved in the etiology of Hashimoto thyroiditis and Graves' disease as autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs). Effects of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms in AITDs development have already been investigated in some previous studies. However, no study has been done on the association between VDR FokI and ApaI polymorphisms and AITDs in an Iranian population. In this study, the possible effects of FokI and ApaI polymorphisms on AITDs were investigate ...[more]