Genetic/Epigenetic Modeling of Male Lupus Risk

Women develop lupus nine times more often than men. Research implicates hormones and having two X chromosomes as risk factors for women. However, little is known about why men get lupus. Dr. Bruce Richardson of the University of Michigan has received a Lupus Foundation of America national research grant to study lupus in men. In this video, Dr. Richardson describes his research project and his hypothesis regarding the role epigenetics plays in the development of lupus in males.

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• men
• risk factors
• systemic lupus
• medical research
• lupus research
• epigenetic
• genetic
• male lupus

[martincy2009]

Thank you, Dr. Richardson. you have touched on something that is near and dear to me...may I (humbly) draw them together into my own observance? Diet, Estrogen, related to flares: what about the phytoestrogens in Soy products? In reading food labels, soy is "hidden" in just about anything and everything these days! this has to have an appreciable effect on us! Especially if people are increasing soy, believing it is "good for them."

[jimisru]

I have for years told people that it felt like something was leaking poison into my entire body.