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  • Abstract Number: 1134 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci for Leukopenia Among TPMT and NUDT15 Normal Metabolizers Taking Azathioprine

    Jacy Zanussi, Puran Nepal, Alyson Dickson, Laura Daniel, Peter Straub, Tyne Miller-Fleming, Wei-Qi Wei, Adriana Hung, Nancy Cox, Vivian Kawai, Jonathan Mosley, Michael Stein, QiPing Feng, Ge Liu, Ran Tao and Cecilia Chung, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    Background/Purpose: Azathioprine is a thiopurine drug used for the treatment of several inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. However, its use is limited due to side effects,…
  • Abstract Number: 1128 • ACR Convergence 2022

    The Causal Association Between Osteoarthritis and Common Comorbidities: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

    William Thompson1, Subhashisa Swain2, Sizheng Zhao3, Anne Kamps4, Carol Coupland5, Chang-Fu Kuo6, Michael Doherty5 and Weiya Zhang5, 1University of Nottingham, Exeter, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 4Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 5University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 6Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of joint pain and a major cause of disability. OA commonly associates with other conditions, such as…
  • Abstract Number: 1127 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Unsupervised Clustering Analysis of the Serum Proteome Identifies Systemic Sclerosis Patients with Distinctive Clinical Features

    Chary Lopez-Pedrera1, Rafaela Ortega-Castro1, Tomás Cerdó2, Pilar Font1, María Martinez-Monllor3, Laura Muñoz-Barrera1, Ismael Sánchez-Pareja2, María Carmen Ábalos-Aguilera3, Nuria Barbarroja1, Eduardo Collantes1, María Ángeles Aguirre-Zamorano4 and Carlos Pérez-Sánchez1, 1IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, 2IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Córdoba, Spain, 3Imibic/ University of Córdoba/ Reina Sofía Hospital, Córdoba, Spain, 4Reina Sofía University Hospital/ Rheumatology Department, Córdoba, Spain

    Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an heterogeneous autoimmune disease. There is an unmet need of biomarkers for diagnosis, progression and therapeutic response.This study aimed to…
  • Abstract Number: 1139 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Molecular Pathways Identified from Risk Alleles Identify Mechanistic Differences in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients of East Asian and European Ancestry

    Katherine Owen1, Kristy Bell2, Andrew Price3, Prathyusha Bachali4, Hannah Ainsworth5, Miranda Marion6, Timothy Howard5, Carl Langefeld7, Nan Shen8, Jinoos Yazdany9, Maria Dall'Era10, Amrie Grammer11 and Peter Lipsky3, 1RILITE, Crozet, VA, 2AMPEL BioSolutions LLC, Charlottesville, VA, 3AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA, 4AMPEL BioSolutions, Redmond, WA, 5Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 6Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 7Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, 8Shanghai Jiang Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 9UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 10University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, 11AMPEL LLC, Charlottesville, VA

    Background/Purpose: SLE is a multi-organ autoimmune disorder with a prominent genetic component. Individuals of Asian-Ancestry (AsA) disproportionately experience more severe SLE compared to individuals of…
  • Abstract Number: 1141 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Consequences of SLE Heterogeneity on the Epigenome and the Drivers Behind

    Olivia Castellini-Pérez1, Athina Spiliopoulou2, Guillermo Barturen1, Andrii Iakovliev2, Manuel Martinez-Bueno1, Elena Carnero-Montoro1 and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme1, 1Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, 2University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by a complex aetiology and heterogenous symptomatology which has been recently dissected using…
  • Abstract Number: 1130 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Identification of Novel Molecular Signatures Associated with the Therapeutic Response to DMARDs and TNFi Therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Through High Throughput Proteomics

    Carlos Pérez-Sánchez1, Laura Muñoz-Barrera1, Tomás Cerdó2, Ismael Sánchez-Pareja2, Jerusalem Calvo-Gutierrez2, Rafaela Ortega-Castro1, Montserrat Romero-Gomez2, María Ángeles Aguirre-Zamorano3, María Carmen Ábalos-Aguilera4, Nuria Barbarroja1, José Perez-Venegas5, Mª Dolores Ruiz-Montesinos5, Carmen Dominguez5, Carlos Rodriguez-Escalera6, Carmen Romero-Barco6, Antonio Fernandez-Nebro7, Natalia Mena Vazquez7, Jose Luis Marenco8, Julia Uceda Montañez8, Charo Santos9, Eduardo Collantes1, Alejandro Escudero-Contreras2 and Chary Lopez-Pedrera1, 1IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, 2IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Córdoba, Spain, 3Reina Sofía University Hospital/ Rheumatology Department, Córdoba, Spain, 4Imibic/ University of Córdoba/ Reina Sofía Hospital, Córdoba, Spain, 5Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain, 6Virgen de la Victoria Hospital, Málaga, Spain, 7Regional University Hospital of Málaga, Málaga, Spain, 8Virgen de Valme University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain, 9Virgen de Valme University Hospital, Málaga, Spain

    Background/Purpose: The clinical outcome of conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and TNF inhibitors (TNFi) is still unpredictable in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Thus, innovative analyses…
  • Abstract Number: 1138 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Whole-Blood DNA Methylation Analysis Reveals Respiratory Environmental Traits Involved in COVID-19 Severity Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Common Molecular Signatures with Autoimmune Diseases

    Guillermo Barturen1, Elena Carnero-Montoro1, Manuel Martinez-Bueno1, Silvia Rojo-Rello2, Beatriz Sobrino3, Clara Alcántara-Domínguez4, David Bernardo5 and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme1, 1Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, 2Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain, 3Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, 4Lorgen G.P., SL, Granada, Spain, 5Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain

    Background/Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 causes a severe inflammatory syndrome (COVID-19) leading, in many cases, to bilateral pneumonia, severe dyspnea and in ~5% of these, death. DNA methylation…
  • Abstract Number: 1152 • ACR Convergence 2022

    A Novel Serological Biomarker Measuring a Fragment of Cartilage Intermediate Layer Protein 1 Is Highly Upregulated in Rheumatic Diseases

    Helena Port1, Walter P Maksymowych2, Morten Karsdal3, Anne-Christine Bay-Jensen3 and Signe Holm Nielsen3, 1University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 3Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark

    Background/Purpose: A hallmark of rheumatic joint diseases is altered cartilage protein turnover and protein composition. During cartilage erosions, the cartilage intermediate layer protein-1 (CILP-1), is…
  • Abstract Number: 1146 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Genetic Interactions Between T-Cell Receptor Polymorphisms and HLA Amino Acids Contribute to the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Chuan Fu Yap1, Paul Martin2, Darren Plant1, John Bowes1, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki3, Saori Sakaue4, Alex Macgregor5, Suzanne Verstappen1, Anne Barton1, Soumya Raychaudhuri6 and Sebastien Viatte1, 1The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2The University of Manchester, Oberhaching, Germany, 3Riken, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 4Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, 5The University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, 6Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) genetic susceptibility has been well studied with five amino acid positions within the HLA explaining most of the association. Although genome…
  • Abstract Number: 1148 • ACR Convergence 2022

    GWAS Identified New Genes in Synovial Fibroblasts Linked to Early Remission in RA

    Marc Maurits1, lydia Abasolo Alcazar2, Erik van den Akker3, Johan Askling4, Anne Barton5, Stephan Blüml6, Stephan Böhringer7, Andrew Cope8, Paul Emery9, Stephen Eyre5, Priya Gaddi5, Isidoro Gonzalez10, Carl Goodyear11, Annette van der Helm-van Mil12, Xinli Hu13, Tom Huizinga3, John D Isaacs14, Scott Jelinsky13, Martina Johannesson4, Samantha Jurado Zapata3, Changlin Ke3, Lars Klareskog4, Dennis Lendrem15, Myles Lewis16, Mingdong Liu3, Paul Martin17, Iain B McInnes18, Raphael Micheroli19, Ann Morgan20, Fraser Morton11, Najib Naamane15, Gisela Orozco5, Caroline Ospelt21, Leonid Padyukov4, Caron Paterson11, Darren Plant5, Duncan Porter22, Arthur Pratt23, Soumya Raychaudhuri24, Louise Reynard15, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez25, Daniela Sieghart26, Paul Studenic6, John Taylor27, René Toes3, Marloes Verstappen3, Suzanne Verstappen5, Helga Westerlind4, Aaron Winkler13 and Rachel Knevel3, 1LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, 2IDISSC Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 3Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 4Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 5The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 6Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 7Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, 8King's College London, Surrey, United Kingdom, 9Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 10Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, 11University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 12Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 13Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, 14Institute for Translational and Clinical Research, Newcastle University and Musculoskeletal Unit, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 15Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 16Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 17The University of Manchester, Oberhaching, Germany, 18Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 19University Hospital Zurich, Department of Rheumatology, Zürich, Switzerland, 20University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 21Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, 22Gartnavel General Hospital, Bearsden, United Kingdom, 23Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 24Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 25Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos, Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, 26Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 27University of Leeds, Euclid, OH

    Background/Purpose: In order to understand the genetic factors that lead to early remission in RA, we performed a GWAS to uncover important biological pathways.Methods: We…
  • Abstract Number: 1144 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Circulating miRNAs and Difficult-To-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Screening Study

    Jiří Baloun1, Aneta Pekčcová2, Heřman Mann3, Jiří Vencovský4, Karel Pavelka5 and Ladislav Šenolt4, 1Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 3Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 4Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic

    Background/Purpose: Biologic (b-) and targeted synthetic (ts-) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have brought significant progress in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but a significant…
  • Abstract Number: 1155 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Epigenome-Wide Integrative Association Study on Spondyloarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis

    Elena Carnero-Montoro1, Ivan Arias-de la Rosa2, Clementina Lopez-Medina3, lourdes Ladehesa-Pineda4, Rafaela Ortega-Castro2, Daniel Toro-Domínguez1, Manuel Martinez-Bueno1, Raúl López-Domínguez5, Olivia Castellini-Pérez1, Guillermo Barturen1, Nuria Barbarroja2, Eduardo Collantes2 and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme1, 1Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, 2IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, 3Reina Sofia University Hospital, Rheumatology Department, Jaén, Spain, 4Reina Sofia University Hospital/Rheumatology Department/Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain, 5University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Background/Purpose: An important role of DNA methylation changes in Spondylitis Ankylosing has been recently demonstrated by epigenome-wide studies. However, there is a lack of genome-wide…
  • Abstract Number: 1154 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Axial Spondyloarthritis: Profiling of MiRNAs in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

    Aneta Pekčcová1, Kristýna Bubová2, Monika Gregova3, Šárka Forejtová2, Jana Hořínková2, Markéta Hušáková2, Michal Tomcik4, Jindřiška Gatterová2, Jiří Vencovský5, Karel Pavelka6, Ladislav Šenolt5 and Jiří Baloun2, 1Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, 3Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, 4Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 6Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic

    Background/Purpose: microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs, which are essential for correct gene expression. The dysregulation in miRNA expression is accompanied by various diseases and…
  • Abstract Number: 1097 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Intrinsic STAT1 Deficiency Underlies Proinflammatory Imprint of Naive CD4+ T Cells in Spondyloarthritis

    Bilade CHERQAOUI1, Frederic Cremazy1, Marc Lauraine1, Ghazal Shammas2, Roula Said-Nahal3, Hendrick Mambu Mambueni4, Felicie Costantino2, Marine Fourmont2, Simon Glatigny2, Luiza Maria Araujo2 and Maxime Breban2, 1INSERM U1173, UFR Simone Veil, Versailles-Saint Quentin / Paris-Saclay University, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, 21INSERM U1173, UFR Simone Veil, Versailles-Saint Quentin / Paris-Saclay University, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, 3Rheumatology Division - Ambroise Pare Hospital, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 4Genomic Platform of Faculty of Health Simone Veil - UVSQ university, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

    Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthritis (SpA) development is associated with type 3 immune response activation. In HLA-B27/human β2-microglobulin transgenic rat model (B27-rat), this might at least be related…
  • Abstract Number: 1047 • ACR Convergence 2022

    A Novel Prediction Tool for Progression of Systemic Sclerosis-Interstitial Lung Disease Despite Treatment with Immunosuppression

    Elizabeth Volkmann1, Holly Wilhalme1, Grace Kim1, Jonathan Goldin1, Shervin Assassi2, Masataka Kuwana3, Donald Tashkin1 and Michael roth1, 1University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Houston, TX, 3Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is the leading cause of SSc-related death. While some patients respond favorably to treatment with immunosuppression, a subset of…
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