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Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans - males in particular - with a variant form of the immune receptor gene “Toll Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)” are at increased risk of developing the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus)…

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