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Polymorphism at the TNF superfamily gene TNFSF4 confers susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2008
Cunninghame Graham Deborah S, Graham Robert R, Manku Harinder, Wong Andrew K, Whittaker John C, Gaffney Patrick M, Moser Kathy L, Rioux John D, Altshuler David, Behrens Timothy W, Vyse Timothy J
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem complex autoimmune disease of uncertain etiology (OMIM 152700). Over recent years a genetic component to SLE susceptibility has been established. Recent successes with association studies in SLE have identified genes including IRF5 (refs. 4,5) a...
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