Copy number variation & autoimmune diseases
FCGR3B copy number variation is associated with susceptibility to systemic, but not organ-specific, autoimmunity. The “Brief Communication” in Nature is open access. Here’s a popular press summation.
Related: The HapMap and copy number variation. Potentially massive human genetic variation detected.
Labels: Genetics
Interesting as always but once again genes are linked to the word susceptability not trigger.
+1 natural selection
-1 genes cause illness