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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, September
Colorado researchers
find lupus risk gene
(AP) — Colorado researchers working with
bioengineered mice say they have identified the
first gene that increases the risk of developing
lupus, a crippling and sometimes fatal inflamma
tory disease.
The researchers said that while problems with
gene Ifi202 are specifically associated with lupus,
many other subtle gene abnormalities are believed
to be involved in the complex disorder.
The research, published in the September issue
of the journal Immunity, is confined to mice bred
to be susceptible to the disease. The finding still
needs to be duplicated by other labs and new stud
ies must be conducted to see if the gene is found
in humans with lupus.
“We believe this is one piece of the puzzle,”
said the study’s senior investigator, Brian Kotzin
of the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center in Denver.
Other researchers said the gene’s discovery, if
confirmed, would be “very, very exciting.”
“If it turns out to be true, it would be an enor
mous advance,” said Dr. John Klippel, medical
director for the Arthritis Foundation and formerly
a lupus expert at the National Institutes of Health.
“It should not take them very much time at all to
move into human genetic research.”
Lupus is an autoimmmune disease, meaning
the body’s own defenses attack its healthy tis-
develop
sues. Many people with lupus al
arthritis. In serious cases, it can attack the DNA
and proteins in the healthy cells of kidneys and
other vital organs.
It mostly strikes women of childbearing age.
Genetic factors are believed to predispose some
people to lupus, although environmental factors
such as infection, drug reactions, hormones and
stress may trigger it. Steroids and chemotherapy
are used to treat its symptoms, but there is no cure.
Researchers have been searching for a lupus
gene for several years. In 1997, a UCLA group
retracted a study claiming to identify a lupus gene
when other labs could not duplicate the work.
A research team at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is inves
tigating a cluster of different genes that, depend
ing on their interaction, may tr
suppress it.
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broader impacts.
“All autoimmune diseases are in some way
related,” Klippel said. “This advance could have a
ripple effect.”
Punch-card system
banned in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(AP) — State officials said
Tuesday they will abandon use
of punch-card voting systems
similar to those that caused
problems in Florida during last
year’s presidential election.
The Votomatic and Pollstar
punch-card systems will be
decertified in 2006, and could
be replaced sooner. Secretary
of State Bill Jones said.
Jones said the systems, cur
rently in place in nine
California counties, are out
dated and can cause problems
that include incompletely or
incorrectly punched ballots.
Similar systems in place in
Florida led to troubles during
last year’s protracted presiden
tial contest.
Jones said he will hold hear
ings with county election offi
cials and voting machine man
ufacturers to see if the systems
can be replaced before the
2004 presidential election.
The counties currently using
the two systems are Alameda,
Los Angeles, Mendocino,
Sacramento, San Bernardino,
San Diego, Santa Clara, Shasta
and Solano. They have a total
of 8.6 million registered voters.
Other counties, which use
other voting methods, are not
affected by the ruling.
Jones said he does not know
how much replacement sys
tems will cost. The Legislature
last week voted to put a $200
million bond issue on the
March ballot to help counties
update their voting systems.
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Keith Plummer said.
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Judge orders group that ran ads criticizii
California governor to identify backers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A
Washington, D.C.-based taxpayer group
that criticized Gov. Gray Davis’ handling
of the statewide energy crisis is now find
ing itself on the defensive.
A judge ruled on Monday that the
American Taxpayers Alliance, which ran
television ads criticizing the governor,
must register as a political committee and
identify its financial backers.
“Basically American Taxpayers
Alliance has to play by the same rules
that everybody else has to play by,” said
James Harrison, a San Francisco-based
attorney representing Davis’ re-election
committee.
James Bopp, an Indiana-based attorney
for the taxpayer group, said Monday it
will appeal the ruling. He said the group
is not a political committee.
The group ran the ads for three weeks
starting June 18. The ads ended with the
phrase “Grayouts from Gray Davis,”
referring to the state’s rolling blackouts.
The alliance is headed by Scott Reed, a
Republican strategist, and the commer
cials were produced by consultants who
helped produce ads for President Bush's
presidential campaign.
Davis and other Democrats
alliance’s contributors include
power generators that have beem
of overcharging the state.
Davis sued in July, claiming thef
violated the state’s Political Reforfl
by failing to register with the Call|
secretary of state. He argued
group advocating for or againstdj
dates must register.
But Bopp accused Davis of inta
to “punish, harass or intimidate|
who criticize him.”
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