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IMAGE: Professor of pediatrics and medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh. view more
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11, 2020 - In a paper published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, a group of international collaborators led by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine identified new genetic associations that can predict individual susceptibility to a rare inflammatory disease called Takayasu arteritis.
The study, conceived by Amr Sawalha, M.D., professor of pediatrics and medicine at Pitt, and chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, accumulated samples from 1,226 individuals with Takayasu arteritis across five different populations around the globe, making it the largest collection of these samples in the world.