The insulin gene is transcribed in the human thymus and transcription levels correlate with allelic variation at the INS VNTR-IDDM2 susceptibility locus for type 1 diabetes

Authors: Alberto Pugliese, Markus Zeller, Alarico Fernandez, Laura J. Zalcberg, Richard J. Bartlett, Camillo Ricordi, Massimo Pietropaolo, George S. Eisenbarth, Simon T. Bennett, Dhavalkumar D. Patel - Nature Genetics 1997 cited by 947