Lack of association between estrogen receptor β dinucleotide repeat polymorphism and autoimmune thyroid diseases in Japanese patients

• Main Authors: Tomita Motowo (Author), Taniyama Matsuo (Author), Tozaki Teruaki (Author), Ban Yoshiyuki (Author), Ban Yoshio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), such as Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), appear to develop as a result of complex interactions between predisposing genes and environmental triggers. Susceptibi...