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Jorge Oksenberg
University of California
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.>

David Brassat
University of California
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.>

About this book

Written by top experts in the field, Immunogenetics of Autoimmune Disease summarizes the latest knowledge in the field of immunogenetics covering a variety of topics relating to autoimmune diseases. The book summarizes the latest knowledge in a friendly presentation based on a disease by disease approach. This will perfectly fit for a bench to bedside approach.

Table of contents

1. HLA and Autoimmunity: Structural Basis of Immune Recognition
Kai W. Wucherpfennig

2. Genomic Variation and Autoimmune Disease
Silke Schmidt and Lisa F. Barcellos

3. Endocrine Diseases: Type I Diabetes Mellitus
Regine Bergholdt, Michael F. McDermott and Flemming Pociot

4. Endocrine Diseases: Graves’ and Hashimoto’s Diseases
Yoshiyuki Ban and Yaron Tomer

5. Central and Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Dorothée Chabas, Isabelle Cournu-Rebeix and Bertrand Fontaine

6. Immunogenetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Allison Porter and J. Lee Nelson

7. Gastroenterologic and Hepatic Diseases
Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz, Emily C. Walsh and John D. Rioux

8. Inflammatory Myopathies: Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis and Inclusion Body Myositis
Renato Mantegazza and Pia Bernasconi

9. Hematologic Diseases: Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Mattias Olsson, Sven Hagnerud, David U.R. Hedelius and Per-Arne Oldenborg

10. Genetics of Autoimmune Myocarditis
Mehmet L. Guler, Davinna Ligons and Noel R. Rose