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We aimed to review the association of the\n                      <jats:italic>MIF<\/jats:italic>\n                      gene, which encodes a cytokine implicated in idiopathic pulmonary hypertension among other diseases, with the susceptibility and clinical expression of SSc, in addition to testing the association of this polymorphism with SSc-related pulmonary involvement.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods.<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 4392 patients with SSc and 16,591 unaffected controls from 6 cohorts of European origin were genotyped for the\n                      <jats:italic>MIF<\/jats:italic>\n                      promoter variant rs755622. An inverse variance method was used to metaanalyze the data.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A statistically significant increase of the\n                      <jats:italic>MIF<\/jats:italic>\n                      rs755622*C allele frequency compared with controls was observed in the subgroups of patients with diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc) and with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) independently (dcSSc: p = 3.20E\u20132, OR 1.13; PAH: p = 2.19E\u201302, OR 1.32). 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