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Brief report: enrichment of associations in genes with fibrosis, apoptosis, and innate immunity functions with cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Dec 2012
Ramos Paula S, Marion Miranda C, Langefeld Carl D, Buyon Jill P, Clancy Robert M
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OBJECTIVE: The proposed pathogenesis of the cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus (cardiac-NL) involves maternal autoantibodies to the RNPs SSA/Ro and SSB/La, enhanced by as-yet-unknown factors that likely involve dysregulation of both inflammatory and fibrotic fetal responses. This study was designed to improve the power to detect specific associations in genes with candidate biologic functions. METHODS:...
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