| Deborah Doniach was part of a ground-breaking team that showed that Hashimoto's disease of the thyroid was caused by autoimmunity. |
| Further studies are needed to delineate fully the link between infection and autoimmunity. |
| However, in some individuals, this state of tolerance is broken, resulting in autoimmunity. |
| There is no vaccine, and none is likely because the role of autoimmunity in pathogenesis is under dispute. |
| These genes explain the tendency for autoimmunity to run in families, with variable expressions of disease in affected individuals. |
| The importance of innate immune mechanisms in controlling viral infections, cancer and autoimmunity is currently an area of intense research. |
