Autoimmune Disease

Report summarizes autoimmune disease study findings from Odense University

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 17th, 2009

According to a study from Odense, Denmark, "Microchimerism is the presence of small populations of cells from one individual in another genetically distinct individual. This phenomenon can arise from pregnancy, blood transfusion, or bidirectional cell trafficking between twins in utero."

"Microchimerism has recently been proposed to play a role in the pathogenesis of thyroid autoimmunity. In that case, twins from opposite-sex pairs (OS) should have an increased risk of thyroid autoantibodies (TA). The aim of the study was to compare the frequency of TA in twin individuals from OS and monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs. This was a case-control study of 240 individuals (120...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-12-17)

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