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A candidate gene study of the type I interferon pathway implicates IKBKE and IL8 as risk loci for SLE
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Sandling, Johanna K; Garnier, Sophie; Sigurdsson, Snaevar; Wang, Chuan; Nordmark, Gunnel; Gunnarsson, Iva; Svenungsson, Elisabet; Padyukov, Leonid; Sturfelt, Gunnar; Jönsen, Andreas; Bengtsson, Anders A; Truedsson, Lennart; Eriksson, Catharina; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Mälarstig, Anders; Strawbridge, Rona J; Hamsten, Anders; Criswell, Lindsey A; Graham, Robert R; Behrens, Timothy W; Eloranta, Maija-Leena; Alm, Gunnar; Rönnblom, Lars; Syvänen, Ann-Christine
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European Journal of Human Genetics. 19(4)
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Abstract
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease in which the type I interferon pathway has a crucial role. We have previously shown that three genes in this pathway, IRF5, TYK2 and STAT4, are strongly associated with risk for SLE. Here, we investigated 78 genes involved in the type I interferon pathway to identify additional SLE susceptibility loci. First, we genotyped 896 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in these 78 genes and 14 other candidate genes in 482 Swedish SLE patients and 536 controls. Genes with P