Prediction and prevention of autoimmune diseases: additional aspects of the mosaic of autoimmunity.

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Autoimmune connective tissue diseases are chronic, potentially life threatening complex multisystem disorders. Their etiology is unknown but genetic, hormonal and environmental factors are important. The clinical disease is preceded by a long period of time (sometimes many years) when the patients can be identified by characteristic antibodies in their serum. When such a patient is identified he is usually...

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