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SUBMITTER: Stasiak M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10298599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stasiak Magdalena M Zawadzka-Starczewska Katarzyna K Tymoniuk Bogusław B Stasiak Bartłomiej B Lewiński Andrzej A
Genes 20230531 6
The risk of Graves' orbitopathy (GO) is related to the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) profile and was demonstrated to be increased in patients with elevated total cholesterol (TC) and/or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. We hypothesized that there were some HLA alleles that were related to both GO and TC and/or LDL levels. Therefore, the aim of the study was to compare the TC/LDL results in patients in whom GO-related HLA alleles were present to those in whom they did not occur. HLA clas ...[more]