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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4789414 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Yanyun Y Zhou Bin B Zhao Yi Y Yu Xiuzhang X Liu Yi Y Zhang Lin L
Disease markers 20160229
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disease. IL-32, a secreted protein, has been reported to be associated with several autoimmune diseases. Our preliminary experiment showed different plasma IL-32 levels than that mentioned in a published report on the same population. In order to elucidate the correlation between IL-32 and SLE, we determined the plasma level and two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of IL-32 in 152 patients with SLE and 310 healthy controls an ...[more]