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SUBMITTER: Acevedo-Calado MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702638 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acevedo-Calado Maria J MJ Pietropaolo Susan L SL Morran Michael P MP Schnell Santiago S Vonberg Andrew D AD Verge Charles F CF Gianani Roberto R Becker Dorothy J DJ Huang Shuai S Greenbaum Carla J CJ Yu Liping L Davidson Howard W HW Michels Aaron W AW Rich Stephen S SS Pietropaolo Massimo M
Diabetes 20190605 9
We identified autoantibodies (AAb) reacting with a variant IA-2 molecule (IA-2var) that has three amino acid substitutions (Cys<sup>27</sup>, Gly<sup>608</sup>, and Pro<sup>671</sup>) within the full-length molecule. We examined IA-2var AAb in first-degree relatives of type 1 diabetes (T1D) probands from the TrialNet Pathway to Prevention Study. The presence of IA-2var-specific AAb in relatives was associated with accelerated progression to T1D in those positive for AAb to GAD65 and/or insulin b ...[more]