1: Nat Genet. 2008 Aug 1. [Epub ahead of print]Click here to read Links

Genetic variants near TNFAIP3 on 6q23 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

[1] Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. [2] Present address: Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA. [3] These authors contributed equally to this work.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease influenced by genetic and environmental factors. We carried out a genome-wide association scan and replication study and found an association between SLE and a variant in TNFAIP3 (rs5029939, meta-analysis P = 2.89 x 10(-12), OR = 2.29). We also found evidence of two independent signals near TNFAIP3 associated with SLE, including one previously associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These results establish that variants near TNFAIP3 contribute to differential risk of SLE and RA.

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