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Home - OMRF News - Archives for Sawalha

Sawalha

OMRF completes African-American lupus genetics study

September 14, 2011

A study from OMRF finds five genes linked to lupus.

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: African-American, Alarcon, Gaffney, genetics, James, Joan, Judith, Kathy, lupus, Merrill, Moser, OMRF, patrick, Sawalha, scientist-news, sivils

OMRF researcher finds genetic links for rare and deadly disease

May 15, 2009

Working with an international coalition of researchers, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Amr Sawalha, M.D., discovered five genes that could be the cause of Behçet’s disease, a rare and deadly illness. The new finding could help scientists to better understand the disease and lead to a genetic test to diagnose and potentially provide treatments for […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Behcet's, genetic, Sawalha

OMRF scientist finds genetic link between X chromosome and lupus

March 8, 2008

Scientists have long known that the autoimmune disease lupus disproportionately strikes women. And though they have searched for a genetic link between the disease and the X chromosome—women carry two, while men carry only one—they’ve not found one. Until now. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Amr Sawalha, M.D., has discovered an association between a gene […]

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: chromosome, genetics, lupus, Sawalha

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