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In addition, many childhood forms of autoimmunity, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, exhibit female predominance [ 5].
This tendency towards autoimmunity in females is often ascribed to hormonal differences because, in a number of experimental disease models, estrogens exacerbate disease and androgens can inhibit disease activity [ 3, 4].
Taken together with the findings reported herein, this work indicates that anaphylactic reactions can be elicited in mice that have been immunized with pancreatic islet-associated self-peptides that also represent significant targets of autoimmunity in T1DM.
The results do not provide support for a major role for skewed X-chromosome inactivation in female predisposition to autoimmunity; however, neither is the underlying hypothesis disproved by our data.
Our inability to show an increase in X-chromosome skewing in females with autoimmunity does not eliminate this as an etiologic contributor to loss of immunologic tolerance.