Comment on

• Genome-wide association scan in women with systemic lupus erythematosus identifies susceptibility variants in ITGAM, PXK, KIAA1542 and other loci.

  International Consortium for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Genetics (SLEGEN); Harley JB, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Criswell LA, Jacob CO, Kimberly RP, Moser KL, Tsao BP, Vyse TJ, Langefeld CD, Nath SK, Guthridge JM, Cobb BL, Mirel DB, Marion MC, Williams AH, Divers J, Wang W, Frank SG, Namjou B, Gabriel SB, Lee AT, Gregersen PK, Behrens TW, Taylor KE, Fernando M, Zidovetzki R, Gaffney PM, Edberg JC, Rioux JD, Ojwang JO, James JA, Merrill JT, Gilkeson GS, Seldin MF, Yin H, Baechler EC, Li QZ, Wakeland EK, Bruner GR, Kaufman KM, Kelly JA. International Consortium for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Genetics (SLEGEN), et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Feb;40(2):204-10. doi: 10.1038/ng.81. Epub 2008 Jan 20. Nat Genet. 2008. PMID: 18204446 Free PMC article.
• Functional variants in the B-cell gene BANK1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

  Kozyrev SV, Abelson AK, Wojcik J, Zaghlool A, Linga Reddy MV, Sanchez E, Gunnarsson I, Svenungsson E, Sturfelt G, Jönsen A, Truedsson L, Pons-Estel BA, Witte T, D'Alfonso S, Barizzone N, Danieli MG, Gutierrez C, Suarez A, Junker P, Laustrup H, González-Escribano MF, Martin J, Abderrahim H, Alarcón-Riquelme ME. Kozyrev SV, et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Feb;40(2):211-6. doi: 10.1038/ng.79. Epub 2008 Jan 20. Nat Genet. 2008. PMID: 18204447
• A nonsynonymous functional variant in integrin-alpha(M) (encoded by ITGAM) is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

  Nath SK, Han S, Kim-Howard X, Kelly JA, Viswanathan P, Gilkeson GS, Chen W, Zhu C, McEver RP, Kimberly RP, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Vyse TJ, Li QZ, Wakeland EK, Merrill JT, James JA, Kaufman KM, Guthridge JM, Harley JB. Nath SK, et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Feb;40(2):152-4. doi: 10.1038/ng.71. Epub 2008 Jan 20. Nat Genet. 2008. PMID: 18204448