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This study is being conducted for families with siblings or twins in which one sibling has developed a systemic autoimmune disease and the other sibling does not have an autoimmune disease. The goal is to understand the genetic and environmental factors that may result in autoimmune diseases

The goal of this research study is to compare persons who developed myositis during active duty to military personnel without autoimmune or muscle diseases, to assess risk factors for myositis.

A study is being conducted for individuals with the autoimmune disease polymyositis or dermatomyositis. The goal of this research study is to better understand the environmental risk factors that may result in these diseases.