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GWAS identifies novel SLE susceptibility genes and explains the association of the HLA region.
Genes and immunity - 1 Sept 2014
Armstrong D L, Zidovetzki R, Alarcón-Riquelme M E, Tsao B P, Criswell L A, Kimberly R P, Harley J B, Sivils K L, Vyse T J, Gaffney P M, Langefeld C D, Jacob C O
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In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individuals of European ancestry afflicted with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) the extensive utilization of imputation, step-wise multiple regression, lasso regularization and increasing study power by utilizing false discovery rate instead of a Bonferroni multiple test correction enabled us to identify 13 novel non-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes and confirmed...
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