The systemic lupus erythematosus IRF5 risk haplotype is associated with systemic sclerosis.

The systemic lupus erythematosus IRF5 risk haplotype is associated with systemic sclerosis.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a fibrotic autoimmune disease in which the genetic component plays an important role. One of the strongest SSc association signals outside the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region corresponds to interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 5 (IRF5), a major regulator of the type I...

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Main Authors: F David Carmona, Jose-Ezequiel Martin, Lorenzo Beretta, Carmen P Simeón, Patricia E Carreira, José Luis Callejas, Mónica Fernández-Castro, Luis Sáez-Comet, Emma Beltrán, María Teresa Camps, María Victoria Egurbide, Spanish Scleroderma Group, Paolo Airó, Raffaella Scorza, Claudio Lunardi, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Gabriela Riemekasten, Torsten Witte, Alexander Kreuter, Jörg H W Distler, Rajan Madhok, Paul Shiels, Jacob M van Laar, Carmen Fonseca, Christopher Denton, Ariane Herrick, Jane Worthington, Annemie J Schuerwegh, Madelon C Vonk, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Timothy R D J Radstake, Javier Martín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3553151?pdf=render

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