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SUBMITTER: Blossom SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319940 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Blossom Sarah J SJ Gilbert Kathleen M KM
Current opinion in toxicology 20171201
The concordance rate for developing autoimmune disease in identical twins is around 50% demonstrating that gene and environmental interactions contribute to disease etiology. The environmental contribution to autoimmune disease is a wide-ranging concept including exposure to immunotoxic environmental chemicals. Because the immune system is immature during development suggests that adult-onset autoimmunity may originate when the immune system is particularly sensitive. Among the pollutants most c ...[more]