The etiology of the sleep disorder narcolepsy has not been firmly established, although an autoimmune pathogenesis has been proposed and is supported by a strong genetic association with the HLA. A new genome-wide association study provides further support for the autoimmune basis of narcolepsy by uncovering a robust association at the T-cell receptor alpha locus.
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Vyse, T. Narcolepsy and the T-cell receptor. Nat Genet 41, 640–641 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0609-640
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