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Systemic lupus erythematosus and increased risk to develop B cell malignancies: role of the p200-family proteins.
Immunology letters - 6 Sept 2010
Veeranki Sudhakar, Choubey Divaker
Abstract excerpt
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease, develops at a female-to-male ratio of 10:1. Increased serum levels of type I interferons (IFN-alpha/beta) and induction of "IFN-signature" genes are associated with an active SLE disease in patients. Moreover, SLE patients exhibit three- to four-fold increase in the risk of developing malignancies involving B cells, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)...
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