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Genetics of autoimmune diseases: perspectives from genome-wide association studies.
International immunology - 1 Apr 2016
Kochi Yuta
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for autoimmune diseases (ADs) have identified many risk loci and have provided insights into the etiology of each disease. Some of these loci, such asPTPN22,IL23RandSTAT4, are shared among different ADs, and the combination of risk loci may determine an individual's susceptibility for a disease. The majority of GWAS loci are expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), where...
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