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August 16, 2022 News by Margarida Maia, PhD

10 New Genetic Regions Linked to Increased Risk of Sjögren’s in Study

Ten new genetic regions, or loci, were found to be linked to an increased risk of Sjögren’s syndrome in people whose ancestry traces to Europe, according to a genome-wide association study (GWAS). These findings nearly double the total number of known risk loci from 12 to 22, in what…

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