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HLA and environmental interactions in sarcoidosis.
Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG - 1 Dec 2008
Rossman M D, Thompson B, Frederick M, Iannuzzi M C, Rybicki B A, Pandey J P, Newman L S, Rose C, Magira E, Monos D
Abstract excerpt
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatosis of unknown etiology despite being described over 100 years ago. While both genetic predisposition and environmental exposures have been proposed as playing a role in this disease, there have not been any systematic investigations of gene-environmental interaction in this disease. In the ACCESS dataset, detailed environmental histories and high resolution HLA class II...
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