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Abstract Number: 2453 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
High-Density Genotyping of Risk Loci in African Americans with RA
Maria I. Danila¹, Richard Reynolds², Qi Yan³, Nianjun Liu³, Peter K. Gregersen⁴, CLEAR Investigators², Donna K. Arnett² and S. Louis Bridges Jr.^2,5, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Genomics and Human Genetics, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁵Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Genetic studies have identified 101 risk loci for RA in individuals of Caucasian and Asian descent. However, to date the genetic determinants of RA…
Abstract Number: 2454 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genetic Influences on Rheumatoid Arthritis in African-Americans
Vincent A. Laufer^1,2, Richard J. Reynolds³, Maria I. Danila⁴, Gordon Wu⁵, Amit Patki⁵, Devin Absher⁶, Carl D. Langefeld⁷, R. Curtis Hendrickson⁸, Elliot J. Lefkowitz⁹, Ted R. Mikuls¹⁰, Peter K. Gregersen¹¹, Elizabeth E. Brown⁸, Robert P. Kimberly⁸, John B. Harley¹², Donna K. Arnett⁸, Hemant K. Tiwari⁵ and S. Louis Bridges Jr.^8,13, ¹Division of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Scientist Training Program, Birmingham, AL, ³Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, ⁷Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰Veteran Affairs Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹¹Genomics and Human Genetics, Feinstein Institute Medical Research and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Manhasset, NY, ¹²Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹³Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects 0.5-1% of the population worldwide. The genetics of RA has been analyzed in large European and Asian studies, but much…
Abstract Number: 2455 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
IL-6 Proximal Promoter SNP rs18000795 Genotype Strongly Correlates with Synovial Fibroblast IL-6 Expression
Erika Noss¹, Sook Kyung Chang², Gerald Watts² and Michael Brenner², ¹Divison of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose Interleukin (IL)-6 is an important driver of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathology, and synovial fibroblasts are a major source of IL-6 in the RA synovium. …
Abstract Number: 2456 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Associations of Toll-like Receptor (TLR)-4 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Progression
Marshall Davis¹, Tricia LeVan², Fang Yu³, Harlan Sayles⁴, Jeremy Sokolove⁵, William H. Robinson⁶, Kaleb Michaud⁷, Geoffrey M Thiele⁸ and Ted R. Mikuls⁴, ¹Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr, Omaha, NE, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Omaha VA Medical Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ⁸Omaha VA and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 signaling pathways have been implicated in both the innate and adaptive immune responses that characterize rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study,…
Abstract Number: 2457 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I-Related Chain a (MICA) Antibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease
Hiroshi Furukawa¹, Shomi Oka¹, Kota Shimada², Akiko Komiya¹, Naoshi Fukui¹, Naoyuki Tsuchiya³ and Shigeto Tohma¹, ¹Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, Sagamihara Hospital, National Hospital Organization, Sagamihara, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatic Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ³Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is frequently associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and is designated RA-associated ILD (RA-ILD) that influences the prognosis of the disease.…
Abstract Number: 2458 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Targeting IL-6, JAK or SYK? : An Analysis of Transcriptome Alteration in Peripheral Blood By RA Treatments
Yoshinobu Koyama¹, Motohiko Tanino², Shuji Nagano³, Toshiyuki Ota³ and Toshie Higuchi¹, ¹Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Japan Red Cross Okayama Hospital, Okayama, Japan, ²DNA Chip Research Inc., Yokohama, Japan, ³Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Iizuka Hospital, Iizuka, Japan
Background/Purpose The advances in understanding of the molecular nature of immune cell receptors enabled to offer new oral, targeted therapies. Tofacitinib (TOF) is the first…
Abstract Number: 2459 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Osteoprotegerin CGA Haplotype Protection Against Cerebrovascular Complications in Anti-CCP Negative Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Fernanda Genre¹, Raquel López-Mejías¹, Mercedes García-Bermúdez², Santos Castañeda³, Carlos González-Juanatey⁴, Javier Llorca⁵, Alfonso Corrales¹, Begoña Ubilla¹, Jose A. Miranda-Filloy⁶, Encarnación Amigo⁶, Trinitario Pina Murcia¹, Carmen Gómez-Vaquero⁷, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez⁸, Benjamin Fernández Gutierrez⁸, Alejandro Balsa⁹, Dora Pascual-Salcedo⁹, Francisco Javier López-Longo¹⁰, Patricia Carreira¹¹, Ricardo Blanco¹², Isidoro González-Alvaro¹³, Javier Martin¹⁴ and Miguel A González-Gay¹, ¹Epidemiology, Genetics and Atherosclerosis Research Group on Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, Rheumatology Division, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IISP, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti. Cardiology Division, Lugo, Spain, ⁵Department of Epidemiology and Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, and CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Rheumatology Division, Lugo, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge - IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Department of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario La Paz, Department of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Department of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹¹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Department of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹²Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Immunology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, Armilla (Granada), Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease with a high incidence of cardiovascular disease due to accelerated atherosclerosis. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) has been associated with an…
Abstract Number: 2460 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Phospho-STAT1/3 and Gene Expression Measurement in Circulating CD4⁺ T Cells As Diagnostic Tools in Early Autoantibody-Negative Rheumatoid Arthritis
Amy E. Anderson¹, Arthur G Pratt¹, Mamdouh Sedhom², Nisha Nair³, Jonathan Massey³, Christine Routledge¹, Ben Hargreaves¹, Philip Brown¹, Anne Barton⁴, John D Isaacs¹ and Ranjeny Thomas², ¹Institute of Cellular Medicine (Musculoskeletal Research Group), NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ²Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Queensland, Australia, ³NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academy of Health Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose Early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) improves outcomes but is challenging, particularly amongst anti-citrullinated peptide auto-antibody (ACPA) negative individuals. Previously we identified an IL-6…
Abstract Number: 2461 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Osteprotegerin Concentrations Are Independently Related to Established Cardiovascular Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Raquel López-Mejías¹, Begoña Ubilla¹, Fernanda Genre¹, Alfonso Corrales¹, José L Hernandez², Ivan Ferraz-Amaro³, Linda Tsang⁴, Javier Llorca⁵, Ricardo Blanco⁶, Carlos González-Juanatey⁷, MA González-Gay^1,4 and Patrick H Dessein⁴, ¹Epidemiology, Genetics and Atherosclerosis Research Group on Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, Rheumatology Division, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, RETICEF, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Servicio de Reumatologia. Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, ⁴Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁵Department of Epidemiology and Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, and CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁶Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti. Cardiology Division, Lugo, Spain
Background/Purpose: We determined whether osteoprotegerin (OPG) concentrations are associated with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) amongst patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: OPG concentrations were measured…
Abstract Number: 2462 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Centrosomal Protein 70kDa Is Down-Regulated By Decoy Receptor 3 in Specifically Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblasts
Koji Fukuda^1,2, Yasushi Miura^2,3, Toshihisa Maeda², Shinya Hayashi² and Masahiro Kurosaka², ¹Orthopaedic Surgery, Kakogawa City Hospital, Kakogawa, Japan, ²Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, ³Rehabilitation Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan
Background/Purpose: Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) is a secreted decoy tumor necrosis factor receptor and competitively binds and inhibits the TNF family including Fas-ligand, LIGHT, and…
Abstract Number: 2463 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Stromal Cell Markers Are Differentially Expressed in the Synovial Tissue of Patients with Early Arthritis
Ivy Y.K. Choi¹, Olga N. Karpus², Jason D. Turner³, Debbie L. Hardie³, Maria J. H. de Hair¹, Karen I. Maijer¹, Paul-Peter Tak^1,4,5, Karim Raza^3,6, Jörg Hamann², Christopher Buckley³, Danielle Marie Gerlag^1,7 and Andrew Filer^3,8, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology Research Group, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁶Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁷GlaxoSmithKline, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁸University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose Previous studies have shown increased expression of stromal markers in synovial tissue (ST) of patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here, the expression of…
Abstract Number: 2464 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-Arthritic Effect of Tubastatin A, a Novel Histone Deacetylases-6 Inhibitor, Is Mediated By Stabilization of IkB Via Suppression of Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway
Eun Chung Hong¹, Hemin Jeong², Jiwon Hwang², Eun-Kyung Bae¹, Hyungjin Kim², Joong Kyong Ahn³, Hoon-Suk Cha², Eun-mi Koh⁴ and Jaejoon Lee⁴, ¹Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea, ²Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ³Sungkyunkwan univ. school of medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Histone deacetylase-6 (HDAC-6) functions as a non-epigenetic deacetylase for non-histone substrates and regulates microtubule-mediates processes such as cell migration, cell cycle arrest, and angiogenesis.…
Abstract Number: 2465 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cyclic Phosphatidic Acid (cPA) Suppresses MMP-3, a Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase with Thrombospondin Motifs(ADAMTS)-4, -5 and Stimulates HAS2 Expression in Inflammatory Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblasts Induced with IL-1β and/or TNF-α
Ikuko Masuda^1,2, Kodo Okada³, Hisashi Yamanaka⁴ and Shigeki Momohara⁴, ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Rheumatology, Jyujyo Takeda Rehabilitation Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, ³SANSHO, Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose Cyclic phosphatidic acid (cPA) is one of bioactive lipid, has been implicated as an mediator of various biological effects including i) antiproliferative effect on…
Abstract Number: 2466 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Among Shared Epitope-Negative (SE-) Mothers with Shared Epitope-Positive (SE+) Children
Giovanna Cruz¹, Lindsey A. Criswell², Xiaorong Shao³, Hong L. Quach¹, Janelle Noble⁴, Nikolaos Patsopoulos⁵, Michael Busch⁶ and Lisa F. Barcellos¹, ¹Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ²Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Rosalind Russell / Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, San Francisco, CA, ³Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Lab, Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ⁴Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), Oakland, CA, ⁵Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose RA (RA [MIM 180300]) disproportionately affects women of reproductive age, implicating pregnancy-related factors. Fetal microchimerism (FMC), or the persistence of a small population of…
Abstract Number: 2433 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy of Ketoprofen Vs Ibuprofen and Diclofenac for Treating Pain in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Fabiola Atzeni^1,2, Alessandra Monguzzi³, Elisabetta Grillo³, Luigi Lanata³ and Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini², ¹V Giovanni Battista Grassi 74, Rheumatology Unit, L. Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, L. Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy, ³Medical Department, Dompé SpA, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), describe symptoms such as pain and stiffness as important factors affecting their quality of life. The…

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