Autoimmune Diseases




BIO372 : Immunology : Diseases : Autoimmune Diseases

Exercise: Autoimmune Diseases

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An autoimmune disease occurs when the body's immune system turns on itself.

1. It has been suggested that the genes a person inherits may somehow predispose the person to contracting an autoimmune disease.

a) How might a persons genes be involved in the development of an autoimmune disease?

b) What evidence seems to suggest that genes play a role?

c) What is an alternative hypothesis for the development of an autoimmune disease?

2. It has been suggested that the environment may trigger the development of an autoimmune disease.

a) Describe an hypothesis that explains how the environment could trigger the development of an autoimmune disease?

b) What is an alternative hypothesis for triggering an autoimmune disease?

3. Pick an autoimmune disease (or here or here) which has not already been listed by someone else in the assignment database. List the autoimmune disease in the assignment database.

Describe the symptoms of the autoimmune disease. What source(s) did you use for reference?

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