Genetics Behind The Disease SLE Almost Completed

A new study has mapped the risk factors behind the autoimmune disease SLE in the entire human genome. The findings of the study, in which researchers from Uppsala University took part, are being presented in the Web edition of The New England Review of Medicine. The study charts which of the human being’s some 20,000 are the strongest risk factors for SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus).

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Filed under: Lupus on January 29th, 2008