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Refinement of the Iddm4 Diabetes Susceptibility Locus Reveals TCRVβ4 as a Candidate Gene
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Refinement of the Iddm4 Diabetes Susceptibility Locus Reveals TCRVβ4 as a Candidate Gene

ELIZABETH P BLANKENHORN, CHERYL DESCIPIO, LUCY RODEMICH, LAURA CORT, JEAN H LEIF, DALE L GREINER and JOHN P MORDES
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v 1103(1), pp 128-131
Apr 2007

Abstract

QTL type 1 diabetes genetics Iddm4 T cell receptor BB rat
:  Iddm4 is a dominant non‐major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant of diabetes susceptibility in BBDR rats treated with poly I:C, plus depletion of regulatory T cells. In congenic MHC‐identical normal WF rats, Iddm4d sensitively and specifically predicts induced diabetes. We report a new diabetes‐susceptible subcongenic line that carries Iddm4 in a < 2.6 megabase interval. Candidate genes include the T cell receptor β chain variable (TCRVβ) family. We found that TCRVβ4 in WF rats contains a stop codon, whereas 5/5 diabetes‐susceptible rat strains express TCRVβ4. We conclude that Iddm4‐mediated diabetes resistance in rats may be due to a recessive protective mutation in TCRVβ4.

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