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DOID:417 - autoimmune disease

Disease Ontology Definition:An immune system disease that is an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body resulting from an abnormal functioning of the immune system that results in the production of antibodies or T cell directed against the host tissues.

Synonyms: autoimmune disease, autoimmune hypersensitivity disease, hypersensitivity reaction type II disease,

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Other Model Organisms: AGR, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s): hypersensitivity reaction disease (is_a), primary immunodeficiency disease (is_a)