Researchers find missing link in autoimmune disorder

Autoimmune diseases, which are estimated to affect more than 15 million people in the U.S., occur when the body responds to immune-system false alarms, and infection-fighting first responders are sent out to attack threats that aren’t there. Scientists have long understood how the false alarms get triggered, but the second step of dispatching the immune response has been a mystery.

Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Perelman School of Medicine at…

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