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ApoL1 and the Immune Response of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Mar 2017
Blazer Ashira D, Clancy Robert M
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) confers up to a 50-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and African Americans with SLE experience accelerated damage accrual and doubled cardiovascular risk when compared to their European American counterparts. RECENT FINDINGS: Genome-wide association studies have identified a substantial signal at 22q13, now assigned to variation at...
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