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SUBMITTER: Leonard D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029634 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leonard Dag D Svenungsson Elisabet E Dahlqvist Johanna J Alexsson Andrei A Ärlestig Lisbeth L Taylor Kimberly E KE Sandling Johanna K JK Bengtsson Christine C Frodlund Martina M Jönsen Andreas A Eketjäll Susanna S Jensen-Urstad Kerstin K Gunnarsson Iva I Sjöwall Christopher C Bengtsson Anders A AA Eloranta Maija-Leena ML Syvänen Ann-Christine AC Rantapää-Dahlqvist Solbritt S Criswell Lindsey A LA Rönnblom Lars L
Annals of the rheumatic diseases 20180307 7
<h4>Objectives</h4>Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at autoimmunity risk loci were associated with CVD in SLE and RA.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients with SLE (n=1045) were genotyped using the 200K Immunochip SNP array (Illumina). The allele frequency was compared between patients with and without different manifestations of CVD. Results were r ...[more]