Prolactin and Dehydroepiandrosterone Levels in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Role of the Extrapituitary Prolactin Promoter Polymorphism at −1149G/T

Figure 5

Serum levels of DHEA. (a) shows that lupus patients had a significant lower level of serum DHEA (). (b) shows that the TT genotype had the lowest level of DHEA compared to GT or GG in lupus patients. Furthermore, (c) demonstrates that African American women with lupus and the TT genotype had the lowest level of DHEA. (d) shows that the serum DHEA level in TT genotype in African American women was significantly lower when compared to their normal age-matched nonlupus patients ().

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