Lupus
Lupus in women: New genetic risk factors identified
Published in Proteomics Weekly, February 4th, 2008
An international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, including researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and Université de Montréal (UdeM), have uncovered multiple new genetic risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly known as lupus. The large-scale genomic study is the first of its kind to investigate the genetic basis of lupus. Dr. John D. Rioux, associate professor of medicine at the MHI and UdeM, co-authored the study that appears in the January 20 online edition of Nature Genetics.
Systemic lupus can affect joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain and blood. The disease occurs in about 31 out of every 100,000 people and...
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Source: Proteomics Weekly (2008-02-04)
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