New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, and five other medical centres will study 200 families over the next four years to investigate why autoimmune diseases such as lupus, type 1 diabetes and myositis affect multiple members of the same family. Funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the study will examine genetic and immune-system differences between affected family members and unaffected relatives. Researchers seek to identify shared disease mechanisms that could provide targets for treatment. Titled "Genomic Profiling and Identification of Targetable Shared Immunopathogenic Events in Multiplex Families with Autoimmune Diseases", the study is led by Dr Dipyaman Ganguly, a faculty membe...