Article
Susceptibility of BAFF-var allele carriers to severe SLE with occurrence of lupus nephritis
2019-11-06
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Dysregulation of the B-cell activating factor (BAFF) system is involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Increased serum concentrations of BAFF are related to lupus nephritis and disease activity among SLE patients. Recently, a variant of the BAFF-encoding gene, BAFF-var, was identified to be associated with autoimmune diseases, in particular SLE, a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 41f06ca9-e9e8-56eb-ba6d-c88175a36486
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.13758/v3
