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Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus revisited 2011: end organ resistance to damage, autoantibody initiation and diversification, and HLA-DR.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Sept 2011
Fu Shu Man, Deshmukh Umesh S, Gaskin Felicia
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system disorder resulting from interaction of susceptibility genes and environmental factors. SLE has protean clinical presentations at the initial diagnosis and relapses. SLE-related autoantibodies have unique patterns of diversification to linked proteins such as the snRNP particle and the diversification takes years before clinical diagnosis. There are both...
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