Article
Coherent somatic mutation in autoimmune disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Ross Kenneth Andrew
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Many aspects of autoimmune disease are not well understood, including the specificities of autoimmune targets, and patterns of co-morbidity and cross-heritability across diseases. Prior work has provided evidence that somatic mutation caused by gene conversion and deletion at segmentally duplicated loci is relevant to several diseases. Simple tandem repeat (STR) sequence is highly mutable, both...
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