Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on February 13, 2008
Rheumatology 2008 47(4):558-559; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken018
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Comment on: The candidate lupus susceptibility gene Ifi202a is largely dispensable for B-cell function
Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Correspondence to: D. Choubey. Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, 3223 Eden Avenue, Kettering Laboratory, PO Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH, USA. E-mail: Divaker.choubey@uc.edu
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SIR, We read with interest the letter by Bupp et al. [1] concerning the candidate lupus susceptibility gene Ifi202a. They conclude that the Ifi202a gene is largely dispensable for B-cell function. However, we feel that Bupp et al. provided incomplete information in their letter concerning Ifi202 genes. Moreover, before we conclude that the Ifi202a gene is largely dispensable for B-cell function, we feel there are a number of observations that need to be considered.
A study by Wang et al. [2] revealed that Ifi202a gene
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