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ArticleEndocrine connections2020

Familial associations for Addison's disease and between Addison's disease and other autoimmune diseases.

Hauke Thomsen, Xinjun Li, Kristina Sundquist, Jan Sundquist, Asta Försti, Kari Hemminki

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Article in Endocrine connections, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Hauke ThomsenDivision of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5951-3116
Xinjun LiCenter for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Kristina SundquistCenter for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Jan SundquistCenter for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Asta FörstiDivision of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Kari HemminkiDivision of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Lund University · SECharles University · CZGerman Cancer Research Center · DEIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

designAddison's disease (AD) is a rare autoimmune disease (AID) of the adrenal cortex, present as an isolated AD or part of autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (APSs) 1 and 2. Although AD patients present with a number of AID co-morbidities, population-based family studies are scarce, and we aimed to carry out an unbiased study on AD and related AIDs.

methodsWe collected data on patients diagnosed with AIDs in Swedish hospitals and calculated standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) in families for concordant AD and for other AIDs, the latter as discordant relative risks.

resultsThe number of AD patients was 2852, which accounted for 0.4% of all hospitalized AIDs. A total of 62 persons (3.6%) were diagnosed with familial AD. The SIR for siblings was remarkably high, reaching 909 for singleton siblings diagnosed before age 10 years. It was 32 in those diagnosed past age 29 years and the risk for twins was 323. SIR was 9.44 for offspring of affected parents. AD was associated with 11 other AIDs, including thyroid AIDs and type 1 diabetes and some rarer AIDs such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, polymyalgia rheumatica and Sjögren's syndrome.

conclusionsThe familial risk for AD was very high implicating genetic etiology, which for juvenile siblings may be ascribed to APS-1. The adult part of sibling risk was probably contributed by recessive polygenic inheritance. AD was associated with many common AIDs; some of these were known co-morbidities in AD patients while some other appeared to more specific for a familial setting.

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adrenal cortexautoimmune polyendocrine syndromediscordant risksfamilial autoimmune diseasepolyautoimmunitysibling risk

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