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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics1996

Genetic homogeneity of autoimmune polyglandular disease type I.

P Björses, J Aaltonen, A Vikman, J Perheentupa, G Ben-Zion, G Chiumello, N Dahl, P Heideman, J J Hoorweg-Nijman, L Mathivon and 9 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Long-term follow-up of autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 in Norway.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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  15. The role of AIRE in human autoimmune disease.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2011
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19 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

P BjörsesDepartment of Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
J Aaltonen
A Vikman
J Perheentupa
G Ben-Zion
G Chiumello
N Dahl
P Heideman
J J Hoorweg-Nijman
L Mathivon
P E Mullis
M Pohl
M Ritzen
G Romeo
M S Shapiro
C S Smith
J Solyom
J Zlotogora
L Peltonen
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autoimmune polyglandular disease type I (APECED) is an autosomal recessive autoimmune disease (MIM 240300) characterized by hypoparathyroidism, primary adrenocortical failure, and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. The disease is highly prevalent in two isolated populations, the Finnish population and the Iranian Jewish one. Sporadic cases have been identified in many other countries, including almost all European countries. The APECED locus has previously been assigned to chromosome 21q22.3 by linkage analyses in 14 Finnish families. Locus heterogeneity is a highly relevant question in this disease affecting multiple tissues and with great phenotypic diversity. To solve this matter, we performed linkage and haplotype analyses on APECED families rising from different populations. Six microsatellite markers on the critical chromosomal region of 2.6 cM on 21q22.3 were analyzed. Pairwise linkage analyses revealed significant LOD scores for all these markers, maximum LOD score being 10.23. The obtained haplotype data and the geographic distribution of the great-grandparents of the Finnish APECED patients suggest the presence of one major, relatively old mutation responsible for approximately 90% of the Finnish cases. Similar evidence for one founder mutation was also found in analyses of Iranian Jewish APECED haplotypes. These haplotypes, however, differed totally from the Finnish ones. The linkage analyses in 21 non-Finnish APECED families originating from several European countries provided independent evidence for linkage to the same chromosomal region on 21q22.3 and revealed no evidence for locus heterogeneity. The haplotype analyses of APECED chromosomes suggest that in different populations APECED is due to a spectrum of mutations in a still unknown gene on chromosome 21.

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Genetic LinkageAllelesChromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, Pair 21FemaleFinlandHaploidyHumansLinkage DisequilibriumLod ScoreMaleMicrosatellite RepeatsPedigreePolyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune

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