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A functional variant in FCRL3 is associated with higher Fc receptor-like 3 expression on T cell subsets and rheumatoid arthritis disease activity.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Aug 2012
Bajpai Urmila D, Swainson Louise A, Mold Jeff E, Graf Jonathan D, Imboden John B, McCune Joseph M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: CD4+FoxP3+ Treg cells suppress effector T cells and prevent autoimmune disease. Treg cell function is deficient in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a loss which may play a role in the pathogenesis of this disease. We previously showed that a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the FCRL3 gene led to higher expression of Fc receptor-like 3 (FcRL3) on Treg cells and that FcRL3+ Treg cells are functionally...
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