Endocrine Abstracts

It is a clinical commonplace is that many other autoimmune conditions are associated with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves’ disease, but the breadth of these associations makes it clear that the classically defined spectrum of autoimmune diseases, ranging from organ- to non-organ-specific, does not in fact exist. All of these associations originate primarily in shared genetic predisposition. As well as HLA alleles, polymorphisms in CTLA-4, PTPN22 and ...

A Weetman, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK AbstractTony Weetman has been the Sir Arthur Hall Professor of Medicine at the University of Sheffield, and Consultant Endocrinologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust, since 1991. He was Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 1999 to 2008 when he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health.<p class="ab...