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Genetic association of miRNA-146a with systemic lupus erythematosus in Europeans through decreased expression of the gene.
Genes and immunity - 1 Apr 2012
Löfgren S E, Frostegård J, Truedsson L, Pons-Estel B A, D'Alfonso S, Witte T, Lauwerys B R, Endreffy E, Kovács L, Vasconcelos C, Martins da Silva B, Kozyrev S V, Alarcón-Riquelme M E
Abstract excerpt
A recent genome-wide association study revealed a variant (rs2431697) in an intergenic region, between the pituitary tumor-transforming 1 (PTTG1) and microRNA (miR-146a) genes, associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility. Here, we analyzed with a case-control design this variant and other candidate polymorphisms in this region together with expression analysis in order to clarify to which...
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