21.   Conditions believed to be influenced by genes in the MHC region range from cancer and autoimmune diseases to reading and sleeping disorders.

22.   Corixa, a biotechnology company in Seattle, is developing vaccines for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

23.   Could ancient alien viral invaders trapped inside our bodies be to blame for autoimmune diseases, where our own immune system turns traitor?

24.   Current treatments of autoimmune diseases rely on drugs that can have severe side effects.

25.   Despite all these tantalizing associations between pathogens and autoimmune disease, one piece of the puzzle was missing, said Dr. Jack Strominger, a biochemist at Harvard University.

26.   Doctors discovered that patients who underwent bone marrow transplants for their cancers had an unexpected improvement in their autoimmune disease as well.

27.   Ellison has drawn attention to a promising new treatment for people with the severest forms of MS and other autoimmune diseases.

28.   For the moment, the jury is still out on whether ERVs are an accessory to autoimmune disease.

29.   For the past two years, she had endured scleroderma, a painful, debilitating autoimmune disease characterized by hardening of the skin.

30.   For one thing, Rose pointed out, doctors have become aware that those who suffer from one autoimmune disease are at increased risk of contracting another.