Low prevalence of maternal microchimerism in peripheral blood of Japanese children with type 1 diabetes.
K UshijimaM OkunoT AyabeN KikuchiT KawamuraT UrakamiI YokotaS AmemiyaT UchiyamaT KikuchiT OgataS SugiharaMaki Fukaminull nullPublished in: Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association (2020)
Maternal microchimerism appears to be less common in Japanese children with type 1 diabetes than in white European people. Our data indicate that maternal microchimerism is unlikely to be a major trigger or a phenotypic determinant of type 1 diabetes in Japanese children and that the biological significance of maternal microchimerism in type 1 diabetes may differ among ethnic groups.