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The SLE variant Ala71Thr of BLK severely decreases protein abundance and binding to BANK1 through impairment of the SH3 domain function.
Genes and immunity - 1 Mar 2016
Díaz-Barreiro A, Bernal-Quirós M, Georg I, Marañón C, Alarcón-Riquelme M E, Castillejo-López C
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The B-lymphocyte kinase (BLK) gene is associated genetically with several human autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus. We recently described that the genetic risk is given by two haplotypes: one covering several strongly linked single-nucleotide polymorphisms within the promoter of the gene that correlated with low transcript levels, and a second haplotype that includes a rare nonsynonymous...
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