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Variation in the relative copy number of the TLR7 gene in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and healthy control subjects.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Oct 2007
Kelley James, Johnson Martin R, Alarcón Graciela S, Kimberly Robert P, Edberg Jeffrey C
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is an increase in the number of TLR7 gene copies in patients diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and whether gene amplification influences the autoantibody profiles in SLE patients, as has recently been reported in the BXSB/Yaa mouse model of lupus. METHODS: We used a modified real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction protocol to calculate the...
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