[Three loci showed evidence for linkage with TAb production: 1) 2q locus, which gave a maximum multipoint heterogeneity LOD score (HLOD) of 2.8 and contained the CTLA-4 gene, previously reported to be linked and associated with clinical AITD; (2) 6p locus (HLOD 2.5), which was the same AITD-1 locus found to be linked with clinical AITD; and (3) 8q locus (HLOD 2.2), which contained the thyroglobulin gene, also previously reported to be linked and associated with AITD.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE