For decades, doctors have noticed that patients carrying a particular immune-system marker called HLA-B27 seem unusually prone to a cluster of seemingly unrelated conditions: painful spinal arthritis, scaly skin and joint disease, gut inflammation, and sudden eye attacks known as acute anterior uveitis. What has remained stubbornly unclear is whether these diseases share a common molecular engine or merely a genetic coincidence. A new study publ…
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