ITGAM is a risk factor to systemic lupus erythematosus and possibly a protection factor to rheumatoid arthritis in patients from Mexico

• Julian Ramírez-Bello,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research Unit, Hospital Juárez de México, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Celi Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Guillermo Valencia-Pacheco,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Hematology Laboratory, Regional Research Center, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Yucatan, Mexico

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6633-130X

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• Bhupinder Singh,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Rosa Elda Barbosa-Cobos,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Rheumatology Department, Hospital Juárez de México, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Miguel A. Saavedra,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Rheumatology Department, Centro Médico Nacional “La Raza”, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Ricardo F. López-Villanueva,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Rheumatology Department, Regional Hospital General (ISSSTE), Health Service Yucatan, Yucatan, Mexico

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• Swapan K. Nath

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Swapan-Nath@omrf.org

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6013-9328

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