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Study Of African-American Women Reveals New Genetic Risk Factors Of Lupus

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Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found four new genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that confer a higher risk of systemic lupus erythemathosus (“lupus”) in African American women…

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