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Promoter variant of PIK3C3 is associated with autoimmunity against Ro and Sm epitopes in African-American lupus patients.
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology - 1 Jan 2010
Kariuki Silvia N, Franek Beverly S, Mikolaitis Rachel A, Utset Tammy O, Jolly Meenakshi, Skol Andrew D, Niewold Timothy B
Abstract excerpt
The PIK3C3 locus was implicated in case-case genome-wide association study of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) which we had performed to detect genes associated with autoantibodies and serum interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha). Herein, we examine a PIK3C3 promoter variant (rs3813065/-442 C/T) in an independent multiancestral cohort of 478 SLE cases and 522 controls. rs3813065 C was strongly associated with the...
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