Sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), this observational study will examine families in which one sibling has developed a systemic rheumatic disease such as lupus and one has not, to see if and how the two differ in the following: Blood cell metabolism; Types of cells in the blood; Environmental or genetic factors that might explain why one developed disease and the other did not.
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Frederick W Miller, M.D. at (301) 451-6273 or millerf@mail.nih.gov.
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00055055