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This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to ARAMIS (AM21393).
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Fries, J.F. The epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus: 1950–1990 conceptual advances and the ARAMIS data banks. Clin Rheumatol 9 (Suppl 1), 5–9 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02205546
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