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: Carmona, F. David, Martin, Jose-Ezequiel, Beretta, Lorenzo, Simeón, Carmen P., Carreira, Patricia E., Callejas, José Luis, Fernández-Castro, Mónica, Sáez-Comet, Luis, Beltrán, Emma, Camps, María Teresa, Egurbide, María Victoria, Airó, Paolo, Scorza, Raffaella, Lunardi, Claudio, Hunzelmann, Nicolas, Riemekasten, Gabriela, Witte, Torsten, Kreuter, Alexander, Distler, Jörg H. W., Madhok, Rajan, Shiels, Paul, van Laar, Jacob M., Fonseca, Carmen, Denton, Christopher, Herrick, Ariane, Worthington, Jane, Schuerwegh, Annemie J., Vonk, Madelon C., Voskuyl, Alexandre E., Radstake, Timothy R. D. J., Martín, Javier
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553151/