In 2011, a team of 17 researchers, based entirely in Saudi Arabia and Oman, published a paper in Nature Genetics identifying, for the first time, a single gene mutation that causes a rare form of the autoimmune disorder, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). That collaboration was led by geneticist Fowzan Alkuraya from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.