THE NOVEL FACTORS WHICH ORCHESTRATE THE MOSAIC OF AUTOIMMUNITY-2017
The paper devoted to the etiology of autoimmune diseases. Authors interpret their nature as polyetiological one, with multifactorial inheritance and threshold effect of the multi-faceted mosaic of a number of epigenetic factors, related to diet, sex, way of living, bad habits, action of medicines, vaccine components and immune stimulants. Recent advances in this field are compared to the concept of 1989 (2 figs, bibliography: 3 refs).