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Chromatin landscapes and genetic risk in systemic lupus.
Arthritis research & therapy - 1 Dec 2016
Hui-Yuen Joyce S, Zhu Lisha, Wong Lai Ping, Jiang Kaiyu, Chen Yanmin, Liu Tao, Jarvis James N
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BACKGROUND: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system, complex disease in which the environment interacts with inherited genes to produce broad phenotypes with inter-individual variability. Of 46 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) shown to confer genetic risk for SLE in recent genome-wide association studies, 30 lie within noncoding regions of the human genome. We therefore sought to identify and...
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