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Autoimmunity and Klinefelter's syndrome: when men have two X chromosomes.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Aug 2009
Sawalha Amr H, Harley John B, Scofield R Hal
Abstract excerpt
Similar to other autoimmune diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) predominately affects women. Recent reports demonstrate excess Klinefelter's among men with SLE and a possible under-representation of Turner's syndrome among women with SLE as well as a case report of a 46,XX boy with SLE. These data suggest that risk of SLE is related to a gene dose effect for the X chromosome. Such an effect could be...
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