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Update on human systemic lupus erythematosus genetics.
Current opinion in rheumatology - 1 Sept 2004
Tsao Betty P
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a genetic component. In recent years, nine complete genome scans using family collections that differ greatly in ethnic compositions and geographic locations have identified several strong, confirmed SLE susceptibility loci. Evidence implicating individual gene polymorphisms (or haplotypes) within some of the linked intervals has been...
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