Oral 5: Thyroid

[O5-4] Comprehensive analysis of seven Toll-like receptor genes with autoimmune thyroid disease in Korean children: Sexual dimorphism in polymorphisms of TLR 4 gene might influence female predominance of AITD.

^○Won Kyoung Cho¹, Jung-Pil Jang², Moonbae Ahn¹, Min Ho Jung¹, Tai-Gyu Kim^2,3, Byung-Kyu Suh¹, Shin Hee Kim¹, Kyoung Soon Cho¹, So Hyun Park¹ (1.Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 2.Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 3.Catholic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank,, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)