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Genetic variation and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Lupus - 1 Aug 2014
Chung C P, Solus J F, Oeser A, Li C, Raggi P, Smith J R, Stein C M
Abstract excerpt
Coronary artery disease is the major cause of mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Increased cardiovascular risk in SLE is not explained by traditional risk factors. We examined the hypothesis that genetic variation contributes to the presence of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with SLE. The genotypes of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 152 candidate genes linked with...
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