[Interest in the importance of Fas in SLE has risen with the observation that 60% of human subjects with lupus have elevated levels of the soluble Fas receptor in their serum and that the abnormal presence of this molecule may protect lymphocytes from undergoing apoptosis.]. 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