[A postulated disease model is that an initial viral infection induces type I IFN production in the salivary glands with subsequent activation of the adaptive immune system resulting in the production of autoantibodies against the RNA-binding proteins SSA/SSB/RNP.]. 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