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Autoimmunity in systemic lupus erythematosus: integrating genes and biology.
Seminars in immunology - 1 Aug 2006
Krishnan Sandeep, Chowdhury Bhabadeb, Tsokos George C
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to the autoimmune phenotype of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is heritable. Linkage analysis and recent advances in the field of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have resulted in the identification of several genetic loci and functional allelic variants of signaling proteins which have become the mainstay of understanding disease susceptibility and exploring the basis of autoimmunity in...
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