Abstracts tagged "SNP"

Abstract Number: 158 • Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium 2020
Genetics of Age at Diagnosis in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Raffaella Carlomagno¹, Fangming Liao ¹, JingJing Cao ², Dafna Gladman ³, Marisa Klein-Gitelman ⁴, Andrea Knight ⁵, Deborah Levy ¹, Andrew Paterson ², Zahi Touma ³, Murray Urowitz ³, Declan Webber ¹, Joan Wither ³, Earl D. Silverman ⁶ and Linda Hiraki ⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, ²Genetics & Genome Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ³Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, ⁵SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Translational Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Background/Purpose: The genetic contribution to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is estimated to be 66% in twin studies. Genome wide association studies (GWAS)…