TY - JOUR T1 - Thyroid disease and vitamin D deficiency JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - A62 LP - A62 DO - 10.1136/ard.2010.129650g VL - 69 IS - Suppl 2 AU - S Kivity AU - N Agmon-Levin AU - M Zisappl AU - Y Shapira AU - V Barak AU - K Dankó AU - Z Szekanecz AU - M Szyper-Kravitz AU - P langevitz AU - B Gilburd AU - Y Shoenfeld Y1 - 2010/03/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/69/Suppl_2/A62.1.abstract N2 - The role of vitamin D as an immune-modulator has been emphasised in recent years, and low levels of this hormone were observed in several autoimmune diseases.1 Vitamin D mediates its effect through binding to vitamin D receptor (VDR) and activation of VDR-responsive genes. VDR-gene polymorphism was found to associate with … ER -