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A stop codon polymorphism of Toll-like receptor 5 is associated with resistance to systemic lupus erythematosus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jul 2005
Hawn Thomas R, Wu Hui, Grossman Jennifer M, Hahn Bevra H, Tsao Betty P, Aderem Alan
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with a complex genetic basis that includes susceptibility gene(s) within the chromosome 1q41-1q42 region. Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), the innate immune receptor for bacterial flagellin, maps to chromosome 1q41 and contains a common stop...
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