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If autoimmune diseases in dogs were simply caused by vaccination, surely they would occur randomly across the breed as most whippets are vaccinated. They don't, there are very distinct hereditary patterns so there has to be an additional genetic component, even if vaccination may be one of the environmental risks (and 'environmental' doesn't mean nasty things in the environment; it simply means all factors that can't be explained solely by genetics).