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Overexpression of the Cytokine BAFF and Autoimmunity Risk

In this beautiful paper, published just last week on NEJ, Dr Steri, Orrù and Idda et al. were able to identify in a variant of the TNFSF13B gene, which encode for B-cell activating factor (BAFF), a very important risk factor for multiple sclerosis as well as for lupus.