Analysis of gender differences in genetic risk: association of TNFAIP3 polymorphism with male childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus in the Japanese population.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic multisystem autoimmune disorder influenced by genetic background and environmental factors. Our aim here was to replicate findings of associations between 7 of the implicated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IRF5, BLK, STAT4, TNFAIP3, SPP1, T...

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Main Authors: Keisuke Kadota, Masaaki Mori, Masakatsu Yanagimachi, Takako Miyamae, Takuma Hara, Taichi Kanetaka, Tomo Nozawa, Masako Kikuchi, Ryoki Hara, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Tetsuji Kaneko, Shumpei Yokota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3758304?pdf=render