CONCLUSION : We corroborated the association of the promoter indel with SLE in 5 different populations and revealed that rs10954213 is the main single-nucleotide polymorphism responsible for altered IRF5 expression in PBMC .
O O O O O O O O O O O B-DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeature O O O O O O O B-SequenceVariant O O O O O O O O B-GeneOrGeneProduct O O O O