Search for dissertations about: "Spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis.
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1. Genetic Characterization of Chicken Models for Autoimmune Disease
Abstract : Autoimmune diseases are endemic, but the disease mechanisms are poorly understood. A way to better understand these are to find disease-regulating genes. However, this is difficult as the diseases are complex, with several genes as well as environmental factors influencing the development of disease. READ MORE
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2. Animal genomics – gene discovery and gene characterization
Abstract : This thesis involves two projects. The aim in the first project was to identify genomic regions associated with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis (SAT), which is a hereditary autoimmune disease that affects the obese strain (OS) of chicken, an animal model for human Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT). READ MORE