Polymorphisms of the ITGAM Gene Confer Higher Risk of Discoid Cutaneous Than of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

• Tiina M. Järvinen,

  Affiliations Departments of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Anna Hellquist,

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Sari Koskenmies,

  Affiliations Departments of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Elisabet Einarsdottir,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Research Programme for Molecular Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Jaana Panelius,

  Affiliation Departments of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

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• Taina Hasan,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

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• Heikki Julkunen,

  Affiliation Peijas Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Vantaa, Finland

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• Leonid Padyukov,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Marika Kvarnström,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Marie Wahren-Herlenius,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Filippa Nyberg,

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Uppsala University, Akademiska University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, Institution for Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet at Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Mauro D'Amato,

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Juha Kere ,

  * E-mail: juha.kere@ki.se

  Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Ulpu Saarialho-Kere †

  † Deceased.

  Affiliations Departments of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Clinical Science and Education, and Section of Dermatology, Karolinska Institutet at Stockholm Söder Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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