Autoimmunity
November 2014
In this study, we aimed to investigate whether the distribution of the FcγRIIa and FcγRIIIb polymorphisms determines susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and acts as predictors of SLE clinical manifestations in the Brazilian patients. A total of 157 patients that fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for SLE and 160 healthy volunteers were included in this study. FCGR2A and FCGR3B genotypes were determined by polymerase chain reaction-based allotyping methods with allele-specific primers; the clinical features were obtained from the patients' official medical records.
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February 2014
Background/aims: Immune responses mediated by complement receptors (CR) are impaired in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Regarding CR3 (CD11b/CD18), the CD11b subunit is encoded by the ITGAM gene and a single nucleotide polymorphism (G230A; rs1143679) in ITGAM changes an arginine to a histidine at position 77 (R77H). We assessed whether the variant R77H, rs1143679 within ITGAM, is associated with the risk to developing SLE and the clinical manifestations of Brazilian SLE patients.
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