在２００２年国际人类基因组大会上，中国科学院副院长陈竺和美国科学院院士玛丽克莱尔·金透露：中美科学家已经启动了治疗最严重的全身性自身免疫性疾病———系统性红斑狼疮（SLE）的基因研究。目前，中美的基因中心都已经派出科研人员前往对方的实验室，共享双方现有的红斑 At the 2002 International Conference on Human Genome, Chen Zhu, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mary Claire King, a member of the American Academy of Sciences, disclosed that scientists from both China and the United States have already started the treatment of the most serious systemic autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ) Gene research. At present, the gene centers in both China and the United States have sent researchers to each other’s laboratories to share the existing erythema