Genome-Wide Association Studies of SLE

Lastly, the ultimate goal of this and other etiologic studies is to enable early intervention and disease cure or prevention. And while that may seem like an unlikely scenario, only the most optimistic among us imagined 10 years ago that in 2011 we would be talking about 30 genes of proven relevance to SLE!

Dr. Criswell is a professor of medicine and orofacial sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

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