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Autoimmunity is a common cause of human disease, affecting approximately 2% of the population and results from a failure or disruption of the mechanisms that are normally responsible for self-tolerance.

Self-tolerance, or lack of response to self antigens, is a process that actively acquires, or it is learned, by which it prevents potentially autoreactive lymphocytes acquire the capacity to respond to self antigens, or they inactive after meeting with them. Read the rest of this entry »