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Recent reports indicated a central role for Tregs developing during the neonatal period in the prevention of autoimmune pathology. We therefore investigated the development of Tregs in neonatal NOD mice, an important animal model for autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Surprisingly, we found that, as compared with seven other commonly studied inbred mouse strains, in neonatal NOD mice, exceptionally large proportions of developing Tregs express high levels of GITR and PD-1. The latter phenotype was previously associated with high Treg autoreactivity in C57BL\/6 mice, which we here confirm for NOD animals. The proportions of newly developing GITR<jats:sup>high<\/jats:sup>PD-1<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> Tregs rapidly drop during the first week of age. A genome-wide genetic screen indicated the involvement of several diabetes susceptibility loci in this trait. 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