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RMD Open. 2022 Nov;8(2):e002672. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002672.

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OBJECTIVE: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is an autoimmune disease characterised by inflammatory destruction of exocrine glands. Patients with autoantibodies to Ro/SSA (SjD^Ro+) exhibit more severe disease. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a functionally diverse class of non-protein-coding RNAs whose role in autoimmune disease pathology has not been well characterised.

Cancer Causes Control. 2023 Mar;34(3):267-275. doi: 10.1007/s10552-022-01662-y. Epub 2022 Dec 21.

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PURPOSE: We estimated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation coverage among American Indian adolescents and identified factors associated with HPV vaccination among parents of these adolescents.

Genet Med. 2023 Feb;25(2):100324. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.10.007. Epub 2022 Oct 19.

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PURPOSE: People with pre-existing conditions may be more susceptible to severe COVID-19 when infected by SARS-CoV-2. The relative risk and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with rare diseases such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), or schwannomatosis (SWN) is unknown.

Lupus Sci Med. 2023 Jan;10(1):e000843. doi: 10.1136/lupus-2022-000843.

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OBJECTIVE: Patients with incomplete lupus erythematosus (ILE) have lupus features but insufficient criteria for SLE classification. Some patients with ILE transition to SLE, but most avoid major organ involvement. This study tested whether the milder disease course in ILE is influenced by reduced SLE risk allele genetic load.

PLoS One. 2023 Jan 5;18(1):e0279968. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279968. eCollection 2023.

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BACKGROUND: While COVID-19 vaccines reduce adverse outcomes, post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection remains problematic. We sought to identify community factors impacting risk for breakthrough infections (BTI) among fully vaccinated persons by rurality.