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The autoimmune disease risk allele of UBE2L3 in African American patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a recessive effect upon subphenotypes.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2012
Agik Sandra, Franek Beverly S, Kumar Akaash A, Kumabe Marissa, Utset Tammy O, Mikolaitis Rachel A, Jolly Meenakshi, Niewold Timothy B
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: UBE2L3 is associated with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis in European ancestry populations, and this locus has not been investigated fully in non-European populations. We studied the UBE2L3 risk allele for association with SLE, interferon-α (IFN-α), and autoantibodies in a predominantly African American SLE cohort. METHODS: We studied 395 patients with SLE...
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