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Thrombocytopenia identifies a severe familial phenotype of systemic lupus erythematosus and reveals genetic linkages at 1q22 and 11p13.
Blood - 1 Feb 2003
Scofield R Hal, Bruner Gail R, Kelly Jennifer A, Kilpatrick Jeff, Bacino Debra, Nath Swapan K, Harley John B
Abstract excerpt
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complicated autoimmune disease with a definite genetic predisposition. Thrombocytopenia predicts severe disease and death in SLE, making the identification of the related genetic risk factors especially important. We selected the 38 pedigrees that had an SLE patient with thrombocytopenia (platelets, < 10 x 10(9)/L [< 100,000/microL]) from a collection of 184 pedigrees...
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