[The polymorphism of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) promoter gene at position -308 and that of the lymphotoxin alpha (LTA) gene at position 252 have been implicated as genetic risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in some populations.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE