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Guidelines for sites linking to mayoclinic.orgFor more than 100 years, Mayo Clinic has been researching and treating Graves' disease and its associated eye-related changes, called Graves' ophthalmopathy. The tradition of innovation in research of thyroid disorders continues today. Mayo Clinic has a research team dedicated to actively investigating the causes of Graves' disease and Graves' ophthalmopathy, and new potential treatments.
Read more about Mayo Clinic's thyroid research program.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on Graves' disease and Graves' ophthalmopathy on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
A team headed by Mayo Clinic researcher Rebecca Bahn, M.D., discovered that a specific protein in the thyroid attacked in Graves' disease is also present in the cells behind the eyes. Read more about Graves' disease research at Mayo.
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