Genetics: Identification of new SLE risk variants

Nature Reviews Nephrology 12, 198 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrneph.2016.26 Author: Andrea Aguilar Researchers have identified 10 new susceptibility loci and confirmed 20 known susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in individuals with Asian ancestry. Sun et al. performed a genetic association study in 4,478 patients with SLE and 12,656 control individuals from six East
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