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SUBMITTER: Anderson AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2614216 | biostudies-other | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20081201 11
The Idd3 genetic interval confers protection against multiple autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. The favored candidate gene in this interval is Il2, which is polymorphic between susceptible and resistant strains of mice. IL-2 regulates the growth/death of effector T cells as well as the generation/maintenance of regulatory T cells (Tregs), and recent studies have shown that NOD.Idd3 Tregs are more suppressive than their NOD counterparts. ...[more]