The insulin gene is transcribed in the human thymus and transcription levels correlate with allelic variation at the INS VNTR-IDDM2 susceptibility locus for type 1 diabetes
Alberto Pugliese Markus Zeller Alarico Fernandez Laura J. Zalcberg Richard J. Bartlett Camillo Ricordi Massimo Pietropaolo George S. Eisenbarth Simon T. Bennett & Dhavalkumar D. Patel Nature Genetics15, 293 - 297 (1997).
