Genetics of systemic lupus erythematosus: contributions of mouse models in the era of human genome-wide association studies.

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The past two years have brought great progress in the genetics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) heralded by the publication of genome-wide association studies in humans and the identification of susceptibility genes in mouse models of spontaneous lupus. This influx of new information has revealed an ever-increasing interdependence between the mouse and human systems for unraveling the genetic basis of lupus...

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