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Autoimmune diseases: Genetics Information. Genetics of Autoimmune diseases: Autoimmune diseases also seem to have a genetic component, but, mysteriously, they can cluster in families as different illnesses. For example, a mother may have lupus erythematosus; her daughter, diabetes; her grandmother, rheumatoid arthritis.
Genetics of common autoimmune diseases. In contrast to simple diseases, common diseases are believed to result from a combination of susceptibility alleles at multiple loci, environmental factors (such as smoking, pathogen exposure and hormone levels), and stochastic events (Fig. 1b).