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The enriched biological functions in SNPs, as well as functional analysis of IMI genes, resulted in the identification of novel gene pairs, from which we proposed new models to describe the underlying pathogenesis of this disease condition. The outcome of this study will give a new set of genes and proteins that could help explain the disease from a global perspective previously not addressed using standard approaches. 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