A longitudinal and transancestral analysis of DNA methylation patterns and disease activity in lupus patients

Epigenetic dysregulation is implicated in the pathogenesis of lupus. We performed a longitudinal analysis to assess changes in DNA methylation in lupus neutrophils over 4 years of follow-up and across disease activity levels using 229 patient samples. We demonstrate that DNA methylation profiles in...

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Main Authors: Patrick Coit, Lourdes Ortiz-Fernandez, Emily E. Lewis, W. Joseph McCune, Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon, Amr H. Sawalha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Clinical investigation 2020-11-01
Series:JCI Insight
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.143654