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The reason why scientists cannot use Robert Koch’s postulates in the specific cause of Graves’ disease.

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Autoimmune disorders are where one’s own body destroys its cells. It is found that IgG plays an important role in the autoimmune disorders. The body’s defense mechanism becomes the body’s attacker. The IgG thinks of its own cell as an antigen, when there is no response from the cell, and it destroys it.

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