[The IFN pathway gene, IRF5, is a common susceptibility factor for several rheumatic and autoimmune diseases, and risk variants are correlated with expression of alternative IRF5 transcripts in thymus implying a regulatory role.]. 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