Supplement: Ultraviolet Light and Lupus :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


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Supplement: Ultraviolet Light and Lupus Sunlight can worsen rashes and even trigger a flare-up of the disease in some people with lupus. It is well known that sun-sensitive lupus patients carry certain variants of the HLA genes, but those are not the ones that piqued the interest of Patricia Fraser, a molecular epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School. "Our hypothesis was that sun exposure causes damage to cells in such a way that it