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Patient ancestry significantly contributes to molecular heterogeneity of systemic lupus erythematosus.
JCI insight - 6 Aug 2020
Catalina Michelle D, Bachali Prathyusha, Yeo Anthony E, Geraci Nicholas S, Petri Michelle A, Grammer Amrie C, Lipsky Peter E
Abstract excerpt
Gene expression signatures can stratify patients with heterogeneous diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet understanding the contributions of ancestral background to this heterogeneity is not well understood. We hypothesized that ancestry would significantly influence gene expression signatures and measured 34 gene modules in 1566 SLE patients of African ancestry (AA), European ancestry (EA),...
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