Genome screening for susceptibility loci in systemic lupus erythematosus.

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, multigenic autoimmune disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. Much of the pathology is attributed to deposition to various tissues of immune complexes continuously formed with autoantibodies; thus, the pathogenesis is related to dysregulation of self-reactive B cells. Recent family linkage studies and allele-sharing linkage analyses of affected...

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