Proinflammatory adaptive cytokine and shed tumor necrosis factor receptor levels are elevated preceding systemic lupus erythematosus disease flare.
Vitamin d deficiency in a multiethnic healthy control cohort and altered immune response in vitamin D deficient European-American healthy controls.
Two functional lupus-associated BLK promoter variants control cell-type- and developmental-stage-specific transcription.
Allelic heterogeneity in NCF2 associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility across four ethnic populations.
Variants at multiple loci implicated in both innate and adaptive immune responses are associated with Sjögren’s syndrome.