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The three most common CARD15 mutations associated with Crohn's disease and the chromosome 16 susceptibility locus for systemic lupus erythematosus.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Apr 2003
Ferreiros-Vidal I, Garcia-Meijide J, Carreira P, Barros F, Carracedo A, Gomez-Reino J J, Gonzalez A
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OBJECTIVE: To test if the three most common mutations contributing to Crohn's disease on the CARD15/NOD2 gene could contribute also to genetic susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which has been found to be linked to the region of chromosome 16q13 where the CARD15 gene is located. METHODS: We obtained DNA samples from the blood of 189 SLE patients (according to the American College of...
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